That may work, you just have to be sure that the coax can't sag down to get
caught in the ring movement bearings or drive. Since you don't need a boom
strut for support maybe just make a 3' or so vertical support from the
cradle and do the loop between it and the tower. It wouldn't have to be as
strong as a boom support strut so you could probably get a local shop to
weld you up some angle iron that you could bolt on somewhere.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Fuller
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 22:53
> Cc: 'TTalk'
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tic ring feeline
>
> Well I have a Steppir without boom strut and guy wires in the way on
> the bottom. Maybe I'll have to make a coax and steppir cable
> "strut". Maybe a horizontal support a couple of feet above the
> antenna that holds the coax out away from the tower and rotor parts?
>
> -Dave NN5K
>
> David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
>
> >There are 2 ways I have used. The most common is to run the line up the
> >tower to the height of the boom brace struts, then loop it down and back
> up
> >to the strut and then down the strut to the beam. This of course assumes
> >you have a beam that needs the strut. Though in one case I couldn't do
> the
> >following method because of guy wires so I had to put a single strut up
> just
> >for the rotor loop.
> >
> >The other way is to go down below the ring and leave a loop hang down and
> >bring it up to the outside of the boom cradle. This won't work if the
> ring
> >is too close above a guy wire as most of mine are.
> >
> >
> >David Robbins K1TTT
> >e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> >web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> >AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> >>bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Fuller
> >>Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 20:52
> >>To: TTalk
> >>Subject: [TowerTalk] Tic ring feeline
> >>
> >>How about some proven methods of running the feedline to a beam on a Tic
> >>ring?
> >>
> >>-Dave NN5K
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