[TowerTalk] Rotator cable

[Phil Camera]

Try CableXperts  Maybe I was wrong about the exact wire sizes but I used 
the larger sized stuff that they carry.  I had a lot left over from the 
other towers whose rotators needed the 8 cond. version.  Phil  KB9CRY

Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS) wrote:

> On 06/02/05 03:14 pm Phil Camera tossed the following ingredients into 
> the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
>
>> For my AlfaSpid installation, which is over 500 ft from the shack, I 
>> used the following.
>>
>>> From the controller in the shack to the lightning arrestor (ICE 
>>> type) just outside the window of the shack I ran regular multi 
>>> conductor rotator cable (#12 for the power and used the #14 for the 
>>> positioner).  
>>
>
> <snip>
>
> What you are calling "regular multi conductor rotator cable (#12 for 
> the power and used the #14 for the positioner)" is the kind of thing I 
> was trying to find, but nobody seems to sell anything with #12 
> conductors and other thinner conductors.
>
> Where did you get this stuff? Who makes it? Our local electrical 
> supply house is listed on the Belden Web site as one of their vendors 
> but in fact no longer carries Belden products -- not that Belden makes 
> rotator cable that heavy anyway, as far as I could see.
>
> Alan NV8A
>