VK3ALB wrote:How did you fit the brass base back into the aluminum tube?
VK7DX wrote:Good job but what was actually wrong? Possibly the aluminium to brass at the thread maybe?
VK2XSO wrote:Ah ! Excellent. Thanks for the post.
My Diamond is also about 20 years old and I suspect that it will be suffering the same problems.
The SWR had been getting slowly and noticeably worse over the past year. I had swept it from 30MHz to 500MHz and noticed that the antenna's
performance is now better out of band. The antenna is down off the tower and I was contemplating taking it apart in the next few weeks.
I think that will make the task almost trivial. Thank you
VK2KRR wrote:Ive actually got a VERY long Diamond vertical mono band 2m vertical. Off hand im not sure what its called or the length but I could dig it out of the shed and find out. Its got an issue with burnt out capacitors or something of that nature in the base section. Perhaps I could look at fixing that one up to after looking at Adams posting here.
VK2TDN wrote: I could almost garantee that its got damp inside like my X200, commented on in an earlier post
look for cracks in the fibreglass radome near the top of the antenna that will let the rain in.
I found my one totally saturated inside, all the foam spacers had to be dried out in the sun.
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