RE: [amsat-bb] Cross boom question

["Michael P. Olbrisch" <kd9kc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
> Behalf Of Ronald K. Long
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:46 AM
> To: Tony/AB2CJ
> Cc: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Cross boom question
> 
> 
> Just one caution. It is such a pretty thing that the first 
> thing I did was
> run my hand down the rod. Mistake. I got glass splinters. 
> 
> Some people paint the rod for UV protection.
> 
> ron w8gus.

I intend to cover mine with black heat-shrink.  Anyone who has
experienced the El Paso sun knows what it can do even to paint.

IE:  4pm local, 106 deg F (~42 deg C) and it isn't even close to
our record high.  And I live in the Rio Grande Valley, (Upper
Valley) where it is normally cooler than the rest of the city.

(hot hot drip drip sweat!!!)  I do my antenna work in December.

Y-all have a great (COOL) evening.


Vy73,  Mike.   KD9KC    MARS: AAV6EV
kd9kc@elp.rr.com  -  kd9kc@amsat.org
Home page: http://www.qsl.net/kd9kc/
The farthest WEST ham in West Texas.
 
El Paso, where we have two seasons;
Summer, and Christmas.

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