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Subject: [TowerTalk] Outdoor box
From: eraub@hotmail.com (Eric Raub)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:22:40 -0500
Along the same lines...and perhaps a bit cheaper alternative is to find a
surplus army ammunition box.

73, KI0MI

----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Green <dick.green@valley.net>
To: Tower <towertalk@contesting.com>; <rodbrink@montereybay.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Outdoor box


>
> There are metal and plastic commercial outdoor utility boxes that come in
a
> wide variety of shapes and sizes (Graybar makes a nice line.) Typically,
> they have access doors that are sealed with a foam or rubber (or foam
> rubber?) gasket and clamped shut with screws. You have to drill holes for
> your cables. For coax, I install either a 2" Amphenol SO-239 bulkhead
> connector (a long barrel connector) or a Polyphaser bulkhead suppressor.
> Makes it easy to connect and disconnect the cables that way. You could
> certainly roll your own version of such a box.
>
> 73, Dick WC1M
>
>
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