[TowerTalk] Color code coax lines?

[Tom Wunsch]

Brian,

I have been using colored tie-wraps for this purpose and find it to be
economical and extremely useful for identifying the ends of cables piled
under the desk.  All is fine when you first set up your station and
equipment as you usually connect one cable at a time as you make them up,
but if you need to remove more than one for a modification it can be a
nightmare remembering which cable goes where. The color coding has
eliminated this problem for me and has worked well.  My system is to assign
the lowest band number 1 (brown) and work up from there.  My UHF antenna is
white and my 5 band quad uses 5 different colored wraps.  You may have to
key the colors to what ever bands you operate and keep a list filed away
some place.  I mark both ends of the cable the same so that when I am on the
tower I can still grab the right cable.

73,
de W4TAW

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From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Brian, N8WRL
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:08 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Color code coax lines?


Hi all!

I've been out of touch with the list for a while but a thought ocurred and I
wanted to tap the mind-share.

I've been doing some coax/switch/etc. reorg and found myself printing lables
on mailing label stock to label coax, control lines, etc.

A while back I seem to recall a post somewhere about color coding coax and
that got me to thinking about a color system assigning colors to bands,
possibly following the resistor color code sequence or somethign similar. I
could use colored tape or velcro to mark coax to indicate the bands they
carry, mobile coils and stingers, etc. Seems like it would be a convenient
way to look at a cable and know what signals it carries.

Has anyone heard of anything like this? Is there already a 'standard' out
there? I've been looking around at colored electrical tape and can't find
more than half a dozen colors, but maybe stickers in an office supply store
might provide more.

Ideas?

73!

-Brian n8wrl


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