antenna guide

[george kennie]

Sounds to me like you guys are making this more difficult than it is.
Just take a standard set of Nyrod tubes and install the outer casing
into the fuse in a position where you feel it will be secure( I try to
locate as far away from any control cables as possible). This outer
tubing has an inside diameter of approximately 1/8" so it presents no
resistance to the insertion of the antenna wire. O.K., now what you do
is cut approximately a 1/2" piece off of the inner size tubing. Take
this 1/2" piece and slide the very end of your antenna wire into it 'til
it just exits the opposite end from the insertion end and hit it with a
very small drop of Cya. Now go fishing through your stash of music wire
and pick out a piece of about .020 wire and just push the inner plug to
the end of the outer tube.Remember, it's Nyrod so it will slide in very
easily and you will have no fear of nicking the antenna because you are
pushing on the plug, not the wire itself. It will be necessary to place
your finger on the entrance hole as you withdraw the music wire so that
the wire wont pull the antenna part way back out. Once the wire is
withdrawn it is wise to place a small piece of  foam over the entrance
hole jammed in place with some kind of keeper in order to prevent
vibration from backing the antenna out of the tube. As long as the foam
piece is pressed over the entrance hole, there is not enough space
around the antenna wire itself, inside the tube, for it to be able to
back down the wire.
When you want to remove it just remove the piece of foam and it slides
out like it was on ball bearings.
Georgie

Michael H Lance wrote:

> Try using a really thin guide wire to pull it through the tube instead
> of jamming it.This removes the chance of cutting or kinking the
> antennae during insertion.Use of a little talc, or similar, as seen
> earlier in this thread will make things easier yet.
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> Mike Lance
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> NSRCA #659
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org
> [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Del Rykert
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 7:41 PM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: antenna guide
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> I have been using the smaller Nyrod as a sleeve and slide the wire
> down inside it after it is glued inside the fuse. The small size
> allows the wire to slide yet to small to allow kinking. I would be
> fearful of cutting the wire using a rod to jamb it down the tube. You
> don't want to create an electrically shorter antenna length.
>      Del K. Rykert
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>      AMA - 8928
>      NSRCA - 473
>      Kb2joi - General
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>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Emory Schroeter
>      To: Pattern NSRCA
>      Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 3:09 PM
>      Subject: antenna guide
>      Hello,
>      What kinds of ways are you all using to guide your antenna
>      through the fuse? I just haven't found a way that I liked a
>      whole lot. I want something that is pretty easy to get the
>      antenna in and out, even at the field. I've used some guide
>      tubes, but I always needed a pushrod to ram it back in so
>      that I had a fully extended antenna. Just looking for some
>      ideas. Thanks in advance.
>      Emory Schroeter.
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