[TowerTalk] Weatherproof Sealant

[W0UN -- John Brosnahan]

At 02:58 PM 1/11/2005, Pete Smith wrote:
>I've been using Rubbermaid "Rough Totes" as weather covers for relay 
>switchboxes and my 160M shunt feed caps, U-bolted through the bottom to 
>the rungs of my tower. In the first one of these I did, I just cut a nice 
>big rectangular hole in the side that faces down, for all the coax lines 
>to emerge.

Another inexpensive and very available box is a rural mailbox.  They keep mail
pretty dry if the door is closed!   ;-)   I have built power supplies for 
prop-pitch
rotators in them for mounting on towers and they work quite well..  Just 
run everything
in through the bottom.  Any humidity drains out the gaps around the bottom.

--John