[TowerTalk] Dressing coax on TIC Ring Rotors

[Jim White, K4OJ]

Following a suggestion from W6QHS/W6NL I tried something that worked 
quite well for me when I had a TIC ring....

I went to the local truck stop and got one of those long springs they 
use to suspend the airlines that go to the trailer brakes...I would 
route the coax away above the ring rotor - it could potentially fall 
into those teeth so:

I put a caribeaner on the top end and clicked onto a a tower diagonal - 
with the antenna in its center North position I made it taught enough to 
keep the coax well away from the foreboding coax eating gears... 
fortunately the PL259 just passed through the eye at the other end of 
the spring so it was black taped to the appropriate spot along the coax. 
  When the antenna swung either side of center the spring would stretch 
and keep the coax above the gears...

Ultimately decided to fix that antenna on Europe and sidemounted it to 
the tower before some friends helped to remove the ring rotor beast...

That spring was there for years and years and retained its spring, 
etc... if I remember right it was pretty inexpensive, too - seem to 
remember the caribeaner was more expensive than the spring was!

Once again W6QHS was right - his sense of things mechanical is great - 
anyone who has not read his book on yagi antenna design is doing 
themselves an injustice.

73,

Jim, K4OJ

193 6 29





Mike Gilmer - N2MG wrote:

> Any suggestions on the best way to route the coax from 
> the tower to an antenna mounted on a TIC ring?
> 
> Since, in my case, the TIC is mounted just above guy 
> wires, I cannot drape the coax below the antenna to 
> the tower.  The antenna has a boom truss support mast 
> so I think that running the coax up the antenna's 
> truss support and draping it over to the tower is the 
> right way to go. (The anchor point on the tower will 
> be at the same height as the top of the truss 
> support).  Comments anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike N2MG
> 
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