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horrific winds down there. The other month in the middle of the contest a storm came up that made our mouths drop in the middle of a run. The 3 of us thought we would have to run for cover. The larger plastic spacers that are on the C3E kept everything stable. Also, we see less vibration in the element tips with the steady breeze blowing up the hill. Lost a few element tips before we did this. Tony N2TK -----Original Message----- From: Pete Smith [mailto:n4zr@contesting.com] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 09:18 To: Barry N1EU; Force12Talk@qth.com Subject: Re: [Force 12 Talk] C3/C3S Mods? At 09:02 AM 11/25/02 -0500, Barry N1EU wrote: >I'd appreciate any helpful advice on stabilizing the log cell driven >elements in windy conditions and whether there's any way to reduce the >rain static. In Friday night's rain my C-3S delivered S9 noise on 20-10M >and in Saturday morning's wind, the SWR on 10M was all over the map making >the amplifier very unhappy and pretty much unusable. > That must have been some storm, Barry -- I've never seen more than .2 variation in SWR on mine. I think F12 makes some lexan spacers that could be useful -- contact Natan. As for rain static, I've seen suggestions that grounding the ungrounded half of the driven elements will help, but frankly I'm skeptical. My 40M yagi has both sides grounded because of the hairpin match and it is still noisy in certain rainstorms but not others -- when it's noisy, so are my C-3s, and vice versa. Smetimes it can rain and blow like crazy and there's no additional noise at all. G figure. 73, Pete N4ZR Sometimes a tower is just a tower -------------------------------------------- Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. Force12 Web Site: http://www.force12inc.com To Submit Message to the List: Force12Talk@qth.com To unsubscribe and view the Message Archive: see http://qth.com/force12/list For problems with the list: contact n4zr@qth.com -------------------------------------------- Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. Force12 Web Site: http://www.force12inc.com To Submit Message to the List: Force12Talk@qth.com To unsubscribe and view the Message Archive: see http://qth.com/force12/list For problems with the list: contact n4zr@qth.com |
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