Tim wrote:
> Hey Joe - I have some of that wire (from all of my old TDY
> trips to Luke AFB). I've just used the latest suggestions
> from the QST article about breaking in coax, and I've found
> that if you use the stretching method (as shown with the tree),
> you can effectively reduce this glazing problem by about 86.9%!
> I'm glad you exposed what the problem was... I was thinking
> that my Argonaut was having a final problem. Boy-O-boy, now
> I can use that wire for radials for my MMA Vertical!
Now, I can tell this is made-up. I mean, who could measure the
glazing reduction so accurately as to come up with a number like
86.9% ? Such precision is not attainable even by scientists, like
the guys that built the Hubble Space Telescope...
Dana K6JQ
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