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Learned more about antenna cable grounding from a 70 year old crop duster pilot in a hangar in Bakersfield than any manual ever taught me.
He pointed at my messy coax run and said "son, that ain't gonna save you from a lightning strike, get that drip loop right" and I haven't screwed up a terminal block since, anyone else get handed a career-defining tip from some random old timer?
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harper_owens5d ago
And that dielectric grease trick from @the_logan is basically the secret sauce every newbie should know, right up there with drip loops and not using zip ties tighter than a tourniquet. I learned the hard way that a little blob of that stuff goes further than a whole roll of weatherproof tape, especially when you're out in the field at 6am and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
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the_logan5d ago
My first proper coax run looked like a rat's nest after a bad breakup, so I can relate. A grizzled telecom guy once watched me struggle with a weatherproof connector and just handed me a tube of dielectric grease, saying "pretend it's sunscreen for your cables." That one tip saved me from more rusted connections than I care to count.
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