[TowerTalk] Question - Routing of Coax around Rotator Shelf

[Bill Coleman]

I'm steadily working to put up my 44' Rohn 25 bracketed tower. While 
planning ahead, I ran across something I'm not entirely sure how to 
handle.

I know that you're supposed to route all cables INSIDE the tower. This 
works for me right up to the 40' level, were the standard Rohn AS25 
rotator shelf completely blocks the tower interior. In my case, I have an 
AG3 top, so there's still a couple of feet of tower to route the cable 
within.

How do others do this?

* Jump around the shelf, bringing the coax back in, and up the tower leg 
before the rotation turn loop where the taper stops. 

* Go outside shelf, leaving the coax outside the tower before the 
rotation turn loop.

* Starting the rotation turn loop at the shelf.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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