antenna guide

[Del Rykert]

Sounds like a great idea to me too. Just hope credit is given to those that contributed as some choose not to be honorable.

     Del K. Rykert
     AMA - 8928 
     NSRCA - 473
     Kb2joi - General 
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RC Steve Sterling 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:42 PM
  Subject: RE: antenna guide


  Sounds like this might be a good one for the tips section on the nsrca.org web page.

  OK George??

  Steve
    -----Original Message-----
    From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of george kennie
    Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:29 AM
    To: discussion at nsrca.org
    Subject: Re: antenna guide


    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 Once the wire is withdrawn it is wise to place a small piece of  foam over the entrance hole jammed in place with some kind of keeper in order to prevent vibration from backing the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.


      I have been ing 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

           AMA - 8928  
           NSRCA - 473 
           Kb2joi - General  
        ----- 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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