[IRCA] Antenna Soldering, revisited

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

Patrick,

I thought your problem over and I came to a conclusion: WHY
solder your splices?

Simply use the Western Union splice, as illustrated at:

http://www.tpub.com/content/construction/14027/css/14027_122.htm


Since you don't have enough wire after it's been broken,
splice in an additional length of the same gauge wire. Do a
double spice.

You may want to make a test splice with some unused wire and
see how many "wraps" you need to throw to assure that the
splice won't part under the maximum tension that the wire
will experience without breaking.

Then coat the splice with RTV and let it cure, and that
splice will be permanent.

The telegraph and telephone companies used the WU splice on
their old open lines without soldering, and the electric
utlities did too until they started using multiconductor
aluminum (pax vobiscum, Canucks: aluminium) and steel cables
("ACSR") and had to use brute-force crimp splices.

Charles


   Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
  Greenville, North Carolina 


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