If anyone is interested in taking part in Field Day, contact Dave, VE6DSK, or any other member of the executive. The only prerequisite is a willingness to have fun operating radios. Under pressure from the Marconi family and others in Britain and the US, the British company that holds a great deal of Marconi's equipment from the early days of radio has announced it will not auction off the material. The sale was expected to bring in about 2 million dollars. According to the auction house brochure, the material included equipment and technical papers including the first patent for improvements in wireless telegraphy.
Water is the death of coax.
Condensation inside connectors can cause the coax to degrade to the point where little RF can pass through the cable. Good quality electrical tape should be applied to any connector in the transmission line. If you are buying coax, cheap coax is not economical in the long term. An advisory agency of the US government is recommending that HF spectrum for hams be increased on a world-wide basis. All of this must be approved at the upcoming World Radio Conference after technical studies.