Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:02:13 -0400
Due to basement work I've had to pull all the cables out of the conduit. Man, but I was sore the other day and was wondering whey until I realized I'd pulled between 1300 and 1500 feet of cable out o
Roger: A couple of comments FWIW: Use an oversized flange nut from The Wireman ( http://thewireman.com/newconnect2.html , P/N 1164 ) to fasten your barrel connectors to the aluminum angle. These babi
Roger, Here's a couple pictures of the bulkhead assembly I made for the top of my tower... http://tinyurl.com/rc9v2 See photo's D, E, and F. At HF there's negligible insertion loss through a couple e
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:10:55 -0400
Your feed through bracket is *almost* identical to mine with the only real difference being the mounting of the bracket. Mine mounts to the tower legs so the U-bolts are horizontal and have an inser
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:14:27 -0400
Fortunately I was introduced to those at the Midland swap a week ago. <:-)) contact with the angle than the normal thin nut that might come with the barrel connectors. Thus your connection of the co
TT: Photo H in Bob's collection is similar to how I raised my Bencher Skyhawk into position on the tower, i.e., nose upwards. The principal difference between our approaches is that I used two rope l
Did you consider the Polyphaser grounding kits? AFAICS from the literature, you strip off the outer jacket, clamp one end of the copper strip around the exposed braid, then seal the whole thing up an
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:40:44 -0400
I'd never heard of them. I'll have to look into them if I can find the information. I've been reluctant to cut the jacket any place to make up something like this, but the Polyphaser might be just w
All coax cables running up my tower are terminated with PL259 connectors at the tower base. These are connected using barrel connectors to coax cables running through conduit to the aluminum bulkhead
All basically the same except for the metal to which they are designed to connect at each end: http://www.polyphaser.com/kommerce_productdetail.aspx?item=UNI-KIT-2TC http://www.polyphaser.com/kommerc
A whitepaper that shows how they install: http://www.dxengineering.com/Sections.asp?ID=48&DeptID=19#Top 73, John W8JJW _______________________________________________ _______________________________
The lowest price I have been able to find for these kits is about $34 each. DX Engineering wants $42 and change. Andrew makes grounding kits that are around $10 at TESSCO, but you have to engineer yo
Hello All, Pete, what you suggest is almost exactly what I did, although I did not put the bracket at the tower top, just at the base. I have not found any problems with this method. I used a copper