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1. [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: Jeffrey Okamitsu <jokamitsu@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:36:37 -0700 (PDT); Ok. Maybe I'm opening up a can of worms here. And, I know this has been debated before, but what's better for securing cable to tower legs? UV hard cable ties or electrical tape? For your information; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00685.html (7,130 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "R. Kevin Stover" <rkstover@mchsi.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:59:10 -0500; If it was me, I'd use both. One layer of tape on the leg, followed by the zip tie, followed by another layer of tape. - -- R. Kevin Stover, ACØH --BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00687.html (7,961 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "Blake Bowers" <bbowers@mozarks.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:23:34 -0500; I like insulated solid core 14 gauge wire.... _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://li; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00689.html (7,507 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "Bill Parry" <bparry@rgv.rr.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:28:02 -0500; The tower guys that put up my stuff refused to use the cable ties or tape. They insisted on the solid copper wire. They said that after a while the UV cable ties disintegrate. Bill, W5VX I like insul; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00691.html (8,605 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "Mike, K6BR" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:56:49 -0700; Use the Stainless Steel cable ties from Harbor Freight, they are cheap and work just fine. Mike --Original Message-- Bill, W5VX I like insulated solid core 14 gauge wire.... -- Original Message -- Fr; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00693.html (8,804 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: K7LXC@aol.com; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:40:47 EDT; One layer of tape on the leg, followed by the zip tie, followed by another layer of tape. Yikes. Way too redundant for me. A run of cable should be well hung (pun intended) at the top; e.g. hoseclamp; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00694.html (8,529 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:50:16 -0700; Hi Steve Don't you have to be careful with the tape?? I have heard (or read) that you don't want to pull the tape to break it after taping the coax. Pulling it too hard can damage the dielectric. 73; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00695.html (7,759 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "K8RI" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:15:35 -0400; You'd need to have a very fragile coax for that to happen. The idea behing not pulling the tape to break it is that end tends to come loose after a while which gives the tape a start to come off. I; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00697.html (9,115 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt@arrl.net>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:30:24 +0000; This is getting way too complicated... hose clamps, wire, kellem grips, cable ties, all too hard and more of a pain than they are worth. For almost 24 years in an area that gets lots of sun and plent; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00698.html (8,975 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: W0UN -- John Brosnahan <shr@swtexas.net>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:33:18 -0500; Securing Coax to a tower. Since hams tend to be experimenters it is nice to select a method that can be reused if more cables are added in the future -- which gives an advantage to using TW wire for; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00699.html (13,032 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: K7LXC@aol.com; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:38:51 EDT; you don't want to pull the tape to break it after taping the coax. Pulling it too hard can damage the dielectric. I don't know about the damaging the dielectric part (isn't it all dielectric?), but y; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00700.html (9,080 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: <john@kk9a.com>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:52:15 -0400; The problem with tape (even Scotch 88) is it leaves a gummy black mess on the cables and tower when you remove it. Cable ties can quickly be snipped off and there's no mess. John KK9A This is getting; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00702.html (9,485 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt@arrl.net>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:44:19 +0000; No it doesn't. at least none of the stuff I use does that. Maybe if you buy expensive tape like scotch 88 it does, but the $.50-$1.00 generic rolls remove and leave the tower and cables shiny and cle; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00703.html (11,705 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "K8RI" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:50:45 -0400; I have to disagree here. After many years up here in the frozen north, 46 as a ham, I no longer use the "good stuff" when it comes to tape. I'ven had the adhesive seperate right off the backing for; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00704.html (12,761 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: "merlin-7" <merlin-7@sc.rr.com>; Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:01:24 -0400; I had to take down my tower because my home is up for sale. This is what I found when removing the coax runs. I used some of the colored tie straps to hold my air wound chokes together. You know, the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00705.html (10,406 bytes)
16. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>; Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:41:03 -0700; ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Neither one. A piece of wire will outlast anything else. Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ _____________________________________________; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00738.html (8,155 bytes)
17. Re: [TowerTalk] Age Old Question (score: 1): Author: Ethan <ethan@ravenscall.net>; Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:38:23 -0400; Electrical tape is by far better. Even UV cable ties will deteriorate in a few years. I've seen towers where you could stand at the bottom of the tower, grab a feedline and pull out, and have all the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2007-09/msg00761.html (8,897 bytes)

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