[TowerTalk] USTowers and cables

[N3SL@aol.com]

To the experts:

I've got a USTower 72' motorized crankup here in northwest Iowa.  This is an 
80mph county, and with the house at the top of a rather large hill, there is 
rarely a calm day, and we have many many days with 30-40 mph sustained winds. 
 When I received my tower last summer, I was rather unimpressed with the 
cable arms, and spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to do my 
cable runs.  Obviously, I didn't do well.  I've cut my rotor cable once, 
physically pulled both the rotor cable and Ameritron switch cables out of 
their connectors at least twice, etc.  The remote control of the tower is 
absolutely useless, as I cannot see the tower from the shack (XYL compliance 
issue), so cannot monitor cables.  Each of the mishaps has occurred when I 
"had no choice" but to lower the tower  remotely (either blizzard/driving 
downpour and/or in the dark).

So, the question to the experts (those of you with trouble-free, successful 
cable installations) is:  How on Earth did you do it?

Rather than taking up reflector bandwidth to my "personal problem," a reply 
straight to me is probably preferable.  Thanks in advance.

Steve, N3SL

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