[Lowfer] XPQ Wasilla reports - Morning Aurora

[Laurence KL1 X]

John - Warren - thanks for the comments - Ill do some digging and make some changes.

 I just looked out of the window and have a Blue/Green auroral arc to the North about 15 deg above the horizon - not a good thing to see for LF/MF long haul :-((

Laurence KL 1 X


 John, Laurence,
 I have had good sucess with silver plating in my loop ATU. It seems to 
 hold well on the threaded parts.
 
 73 Warren K2ORS
 
 Laurence,

 Was thinking about the brass bolted connections this morning. I'm no
 mechanical engineer, so this is just head-scratching...

> > Silver-plating the hardware might be interesting, but the plating
> > probably wouldn't hold up well on bolts and nuts. RCA used to use copper
> > and copper-plated hardware in their AM rigs. Probably high-copper brass
> > or straight copper would be hard to find in those categories now.
> >
> > I wonder how much good metal-to-metal contact you really get in a
> > bolt/nut connection. Maybe something like Conducto-Lube
> > silver-impregnated grease applied to clean threads would fill in the
> > spaces and create more contact area.
> >
> > J