Instructions
:
Cubex - MARK II Series
Cubex Co., Inc.
06-03 Rev 9
Pg. 8
Stranded Wire Element Preparation
CAUTION:
Working with stranded antenna wire certain precautions are required. First to
prevent wire strands from unraveling when cutting to proper lengths it is important to flow
solder about ½” either side of the cut point. Be careful as the wires may be very hot after
soldering.
The second caution comes when un-spooling the wire to the necessary lengths. It is
recommended that the wire be “unrolled” from the roll and not “stripped”, as this will accentuate
the spiral wrap tendency leading to wire kinks. Always be on the watch for wire kinks forming
and take appropriate action to prevent them. If one should occur, it may be recoverable by
carefully straightening it while smoothing.
Wire Element Support - "Wire Wrap"
After feeding the element wire through the spreader arm holes, and checking for arm
alignment, the "wire wrap" should be applied. This following procedure will assure minimum
flexing of the element wire at the arm attachment point and to maintain element/spreader arm
alignment we recommend securing all 20 meter and 17 meter element arm attachment points
in the following manner. Generally speaking 15, 12 or 10 meter elements will not need this
treatment. Sufficient "Wire Wrap" wire has been provided for this procedure - follow the
diagram below.
Wire
Element
NEXT
1 or 2 snug wraps
around the
spreader Arm
START
4 turns around element
wire - spread over
about 1-1/2"
SPREADER
ARM
FINISH
4 turns around element wire -
spread over about 1-1/2"