[FLham] (no subject)

[Bry Carling]

William you need a product called COAXSEAL.

You can look it up on Google. Al ot of places sell it and it will keep 
the weather completely out of your coax connections.

From:           	William Holmes Ferguson <williamhf at cfl.rr.com>

> Gentlemen and Ladies,
> 
> Please help me learn about how to protect coax connectors when they are 
> located outdoors
> in the weather.
> 
> I use the Black plastic Caps which fit snugly over the threaded part of
> an SO-239. Among other sources DX Engineering sells them.
> 
> They do not cover the entire threaded end of the SO-239.
> But they do permit leaving an otherwise exposed, located outdoors,
> SO-239 at least for a few hours or a couple of days without its
> central conductor being exposed to the Weather.
> 
> What I don't know and seek answers to is:
> 
> Is there an already manufactured "cap" or other invention
> which permits the Ham to weather-protect an outdoor-located
> PL-259 so that rain can't get in it?
> 
> If there is, where do I buy such protective devices?
> What's its name?
> 
> If not, one wonders why such a device has never been marketed.
> 
> As matters now stand, I often wrap a  plastic  "Baggie" or sack
> around a PL-259 and use a rubber band to try to make it hug its
> coax cable so that rain won't get inside the bag to the metal and
> central conductor of the PL-259.
> 
> I'm hoping there is, unknown to me, already such convenient,
> easy-to-use gadgets on the market.
> 
> Please guide me to a source or sources.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice if some manufacturer would make a gadget of plastic
> or Neoprene or Rubber which would accept a PL-259 or an SO-239
> and would be hinged and have two sides, or halves,  and the device 
> would  "Snap! "
> over one of those connectors and at the Coax Cable end would have
> a rubber or neoprene washer/gasket which would press firmly,
> snugly, tightly to the cable and be waterproof all over?
> 
> Special made small balloons of tough rubber might be used with a rubber 
> band.
> 
> Other ideas how to temporarily protect PL-259's and SO-239's are solicited.
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> William
> W4DSR
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