Im doing two projects this weekend and could use some advice
VHF 3 foot antenna on mast - Catigale is slipped most of the year at the Awenke YC, but we take 5 trailer trips a year to New England. How do people handle the disconnect of the antenna when the mast comes down?
Swim ladder - Where exactly do people put this? Does it go low on the transom so the twp plastic feet just hit the hull? Are there any gotchas with this install
Steve Smith wrote:VHF 3 foot antenna on mast - Catigale is slipped most of the year at the Awenke YC, but we take 5 trailer trips a year to New England. How do people handle the disconnect of the antenna when the mast comes down?
I had the same question several months ago. Run the coax from the radio through the liner up next to the mast. Install one of those "deck feed-through" things... it's a round chrome fitting with a rubber grommet in it, which you pass the cable through and tighten to make watertight. Leave several inches sticking out of the deck, and solder a standard male PL-259 connector. Run your coax from the top of the mast, have it exit on the same side as where the cable from the deck comes out. Solder a connector to it to. Then, connect the two with a female-female barrel connector, facilitating disconnection when taking the mast down.
There was a pretty good picture of that on the old sitre. It's problably on this one if you look. I'm not positive, but I think it was posted by Heath. I mean it was a mod he did years ago.
