tcp2525
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You might just want to remove the lightning arrester and toss in a barrel connector and see if it rules out the problem. Much quicker than screwing with it, unless you're doing it this way for a science experiment. Doubtful it's the arrester acting this way as it is either working or not unless water got inside. If you do find it to be the arrester, open it up like you're shucking oysters as we're all curious.
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Car installed radios for those who live in the cold northern states...
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Here's a power divider with N connectors that are sealed by soldering then in place. All possible ways for water to get in are soldered. I can put this on the bottom of the Mariana Trench without wrapping and no water will get in. Let's see you do that with SO-239s. Even Marconi wouldn't use PL-259s
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Yep, always good to adhere to proper weatherproofing/waterproofing techniques so you don't have to do the job twice.
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And you'll find in Comet's instructions is to seal around that plastic fitting. My 712 is well sealed.
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And if you install the heat shrink tubing that has hot melt glue inside it is 100% waterproof. Quality connectors come supplied with a piece of heat shrink. I always keep in stock several hundred feet of heat shrink just in case.
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Yep! One can't dispute that. Also, I always follow my connector installs with a high quality heat shrink tubing with hot melt adhesive inside. Water never gets in my coax.
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I think wrapping connectors is totally and utterly foolish when a healthy dab of bacon grease makes all my connections waterproof to 100m.
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Interesting. I'm perplexed as I don't understand why the manufacturers wasted all the effort and materials to put a gasket that seals the two mating connectors. Had I known they lied to me and charged me more for an N connector I would have just made a Western Union splice in my coax and called it a day..
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Have you ever seen an N connector? If not, you might want to reevaluate that statement. I'll take a properly installed naked N connector over a totally wrapped PL-259/SO-239 any day of the week in the harshest weather.
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Understand. As others have mentioned, the SO-239 isn't sealed like the N connector. And no matter good a job you think you did with weatherproofing, it is still very vulnerable to water. In my opinion, if a UHF antenna has an SO-239 it is crap. I would be curious to as what you find when you pull it down and inspect. Good luck with it. Oh, and I never did find out what antenna you're using. It's possible the antenna radome is compromised.
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Not worth the effort. Toss the antenna if it has an SO-239, and like you said, use hardline with a N connector. Buy an antenna with an N connector and use proper install and weatherproofing techniques and forget about it. Too much wasted energy and time screwing with the stuff you have now.
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What model antenna are you using? I think that your only solution is to pull the antenna and coax down for a thorough inspection instead of speculating. Either way, the problem is going to need some physical intervention to rectify.
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I have no problem with the CPS for the 878. I've built massive code plugs via exporting and using Excell to edit and build, then import back into the CPS. This saved many hours of work. Once you learn a routine, it's fast. It's easy to load every Brandmeister talk group.
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Nothing is over your paygrade, it's about finding what you enjoy the most. Do some research and ask questions and you would be amazed at how much you can do with little money and effort. Buy used gear and learn how to make your own antennas and you'll get addicted to learning more and more. There's way too many avenues to take within ham and GMRS.
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Did I read somebody mentioning 6m? I used to love 6m before digital came along. Nobody talks on 6m anymore. I did a grand total of 15-minutes of FT8 on it and moved on. Lets get back to using phone again.
