[Lowfer] Watertight Coax

[Bill Ashlock]

>I use the high voltage self-fusing tape that is sold at Home Depot. It 
> >stays on for years and is watertight. When you need to remove it, it >can 
>be picked off with your fingernails and doesn't leave any adhesive >goo on 
>your connectors or hands for that matter.

Thanks Mike. I'll check this out.

Here's the latest saga: I re-spiced the coax at the connection that came 
apart when I pulled up the line the other night and, now, there is no loss 
at all compared to the bypass line. The only thing that points to this 
splice (two F connectors and a male-male connector) as being the culprit is 
the DC resistance. I measured about 23 ohms at the receiver end in the 'bad' 
condition vs 9 ohms tonight after re-splicing (the antenna represents a 
short because it's only 6T on the toroid). Can't figure how 14 ohms of 
contact resistance could kill that much signal.

Bill

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