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Flying Rockmite 20 metere QRPp tranciever issues and projects
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Rain test BNC to Banana Inverted Vee Halfwave Dipole #33

Closed hcarter333 closed 1 year ago

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

Test that the antenna works in the rain. I'm concerned about possible 'bad' paths created by rain water including shorts across the BNC to banana plug adapter and shorts along the kitchen twine support back to the house.

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

Suitably rainy environment occurred on 12/31/22

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/363004/210182989-34a7eeb4-71c7-4bac-8461-ecae312fafb3.mp4

radio operates as normal:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/363004/210183005-ac114d82-4141-4c3c-847a-933ad6b22dc4.mp4