{"id":341,"date":"2008-10-06T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=341"},"modified":"2018-12-07T10:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:11:31","slug":"tape-wrapping-on-antenna-hose-clamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Tape On Antenna Hose Clamps &#8211; by Dan, N5AR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought several yagi antennas at the W7BUD (SK) sale. All of the elements had tape wrappings over the hose clamps on the element joints. I assumed that Bud did that to prevent moisture from entering the joints.<\/p>\n<p>  I recently lowered my Mosely 2el 40 which was mounted over my 6 el 20. The 20 uses Dacron rope horizontal and vertical trusses. The 40m elements snagged repeatedly on the 20 trusses. Thinking about this later I concluded that Bud did the tape wrap to smooth the contour at the hose clamps to prevent snagging on other beams in his stacks or on guy wires. I mentioned this on the Tower Talk reflector and it seemed that many did not know about this tip, but  planned to use it in the future. I also plan to do this.<\/p>\n<p>  THANKS BUD FOR A GREAT IDEA. <\/p>\n<p>73, Dan, N5AR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11270,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/11270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}