[BC] about STL dishes and jumpers

[Chip Fetrow]

OK, I suppose I should have written, "PROPERLY INSTALLED Superfelx,"  
and "PROPERLY INSTALLED LDF-4.

My mistake.

You know, ANYTHING will fail if it is not properly installed.

It is not my preference to use Superflex outside, but it is my  
preference to use in inside.

Like I wrote earlier, I PREFER to have the tower crew measure the  
length they need, and I will build an LDF-4 jumper on the ground for  
them.  I am Andrew trained, and I have the Andrew tools, so I am very  
comfortable.  I have NEVER had one jumper fail to pass the test of the  
Network Analyzer, either on the ground or on the tower.  I build them  
right, and I will bet I have built well over 1000 of them.  I have  
built a LOT of two-way radio combiners, and receiver multi-couplers.

--chip

On Nov 13, 2010, at 8:42 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 27
> From: "Gary Glaenzer" <glaenzer at frontier.com>
>
> I have, but only if the installer left a large part of it  
> unsupported (not
> secured to a tower leg) which allowed wind to move it
>
> I recently saw a long down-tower length of LDF-4 fail in several  
> places
> because the installer had used Wrap-Lock? around the cable and  
> horizontal
> tower members
>
> the Wrap-Lock? ended up at a 45-degree angle to both, and the edge
> eventually cut thru both the plastic and the copper
>
> From: "Broadcast List USER" <Broadcast at fetrow.org>
>
>> I have NEVER seen a Superflex jumper fail.
>>
>> I have NEVER seen an LDF-4 jumper fail.