That is interesting Gran. The noise did not change with weather conditions, be it wet or dry, dead calm or gale force winds. I didn't try spraying with water while testing, but did tap on all the dipoles and wiggle as much coax as I could reach. It didn't seem to react to any of that. It was very noisy during all this testing, but not much more or less so than at any other time.
Paul N1BUG Gran Clark wrote: > > > Paul > > I have recently had to deal with the same problem. Note if the noise > goes away when the antenna is wet for frozen. If this is the case try > selectively spraying elements with water while whacking the antenna with > a rubber hammer. I will leave the mechanics of doing this up to > you....HI. Feed line noise due to flexing could be eliminated as a > cause with this test also. Tightening hardware helped in my case but > the final answer was going to all welded construction. > > Gran K6RIF
