[TowerTalk] Tic ring feeline

Dave Fuller rfcdma at spinn.net
Mon Sep 11 18:53:25 EDT 2006


Well  I have a Steppir without boom strut and guy wires in the way on 
the bottom.   Maybe I'll have to make a coax and steppir cable 
"strut".    Maybe a horizontal support a couple of feet above the 
antenna that holds the coax out away from the tower and rotor parts? 

-Dave NN5K

David Robbins K1TTT wrote:

>There are 2 ways I have used.  The most common is to run the line up the
>tower to the height of the boom brace struts, then loop it down and back up
>to the strut and then down the strut to the beam.  This of course assumes
>you have a beam that needs the strut.  Though in one case I couldn't do the
>following method because of guy wires so I had to put a single strut up just
>for the rotor loop.
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>The other way is to go down below the ring and leave a loop hang down and
>bring it up to the outside of the boom cradle.  This won't work if the ring
>is too close above a guy wire as most of mine are.
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>David Robbins K1TTT
>e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
>>bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Fuller
>>Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 20:52
>>To: TTalk
>>Subject: [TowerTalk] Tic ring feeline
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>>How about some proven methods of running the feedline to a beam on a Tic
>>ring?
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>>-Dave NN5K
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