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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 993893" data-attributes="member: 176704">My little FWIW's after knocking together a 12 section version of the co-linear today (it can't go very high off the ground, and there are a lot of buildings around here, so I thought I would make it as long as possible the first time) :- Continuity check each joint several times during, and then again after, making every one because that showed I had had a couple of instances of the cores breaking (and, of course, the breaks were hidden when the sections were pushed against each other);- Put a cap on the free end of the complete unit - can usually find these on the ends of the cable when delivered on a reel- Tape the complete unit to a thin garden cane before you push it into the PVC tube&nbsp; - that keeps the cable straight when you push it into the tube, and should (hopefully!) reduce the likelihood that it bends or twists as that could damage the joints between&nbsp; the various sections- At the antenna cable end, fit an F-connector joiner to the F-connector on the cable, and wrap the s/a tape around that (not like it's shown in the video) before you push it into the tubing, so that you have something to easily connect to/disconnect the external cable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 993893, member: 176704"] My little FWIW's after knocking together a 12 section version of the co-linear today (it can't go very high off the ground, and there are a lot of buildings around here, so I thought I would make it as long as possible the first time) : - Continuity check each joint several times during, [I]and then again after[/I], making every one because that showed I had had a couple of instances of the cores breaking (and, of course, the breaks were hidden when the sections were pushed against each other); - Put a cap on the free end of the complete unit - can usually find these on the ends of the cable when delivered on a reel - Tape the complete unit to a thin garden cane before you push it into the PVC tube - that keeps the cable straight when you push it into the tube, and should (hopefully!) reduce the likelihood that it bends or twists as that could damage the joints between the various sections - At the antenna cable end, fit an F-connector joiner to the F-connector on the cable, and wrap the s/a tape around that (not like it's shown in the video) before you push it into the tubing, so that you have something to easily connect to/disconnect the external cable. [/QUOTE]

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