I just want to pass on to Rodney and all of the others who provided me advice on a SSB radio installation that my radio is in and working great. I just need to learn how to use it to its full potential. For me the hardest thing was putting the insulator on the back stay. I had assumed that the end of the stay at the top of the mast would have an eye with a pin through it. Finding a ball and socket arrangement through me for a "loop". I ended up puting on a Norseman style insulator while working from a bosun chair. It was hard and not fun, but fortunately successful. I later learned from a rigger that there is a way to convert the ball and socket end fitting to a eye and pin fitting using a special adapter made for that purpose.. I found out too late for me but it may prove usesful to someone else. Again thanks to everyone who passed on their experience with SSB radio installation techniques.

Paul Mellen
Saltwater Taffy
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