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crfriend wrote:
That's the downlead from the GPS antenna on my rooftop mast.
Professional trick:
When you replace it, allow a few extra inches of wire and form it into a loop downwards below the point of entry into the house. That will form a drip loop and prevent the water that dribbles down the wire from getting in your windows.
There is no such thing as a normal person, only someone you don't know very well yet.
Thanks for the tip Pelmut, but the real problem is water ingress into the BNC junction -- and that only happens very rarely. The biggest problem was the big block of ice that slid down the wire that yanked the cable apart at one point.
I see only the vaguest signs of spring here. There are a few daffodil snouts sticking up out of the ground but no blooms and no green anywhere yet. The temperature this morning is -10 C. I am so sick of this winter...
Retrocomputing -- It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
Standard vinyl electrical tape typically doesn't last all that long, especially in the weather. You may be better off wrapping it with some of the self fusing silicone tape out of the orange box store....That is after it dries out!
Kirbstone wrote:In a sheltered place in our garden we have a small clump of early flowering daffs which never fail to produce a few blooms in Dec./Jan. What IS interesting is that we are above the 53rd parallel here, not your balmy 38th!! To get down there (Spain, S. Italy, Greece, S. Turkey) we have to fly a few hours!
We're only just starting the early tulips here and as always the wind is a problem.
Tom.
Ah, but you have the tag end of the warm Gulf Stream off your shore. We have the Humboldt current from Alaska/the Bering Strait off our shore. It's been a couple of years since we had a sea surface temperature of even the low 60s F in our summer (September/October).
I've spent as much time as I want in higher latitudes (and that was only about 48 degrees North in Seattle). The short winter days were hard on this native central Californian. Guess I'm just a wimp.
Stuart Gallion
No reason to hide my full name
Back in my skirts in San Francisco
Well summer time arrived here last weekend - and the weather became dull, dark and foggy. The last two days we have had a haar (see fog) pervading the coastline and even up to our golf course. I had hoped to have a half dozen holes of golf on Monday night after the ceilidh and 4 matches of curling at the weekend, to find when I arrived at the club, that it was virtually impossibly to see the last green (around 50 yards away)
Today it is still overcast and very wet with continuous rain.
So I will have to wait until later in the week to get some practice in as I will be going on a golf holiday mid-April to Portugal.
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
Enjoy your trip to Faro, Skt. They guarantee their weather down there. In Lisbon in March a couple of years ago we enjoyed 25 deg.
Here today was totally at variance with that forecast. Sun all day, light SE wind and wait for it...21Deg.. I was working out of doors and could enjoy it.
