[TowerTalk] Coax loop

[Roger (K8RI)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James C. Garland" <4cx250b at muohio.edu>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax loop


> The coax will go through the 3 coax arms up to the boom.
> So just secure the coax back along the boom and leave some slack in it and
> secure it at the top coax arm? The antenna is 1 foot above the top of the
> inner section of the crank up**************************************
> Yep, that's exactly what you do. Just leave enough slack so that the mast
> can rotate  plus or minus 180 degrees.

Ahhh...my rotator turns 520 degrees.<:-))  (PST-61)
As I'm using rather large coax I use two turns, 18" in diameter, with the 
antenna at the center of rotation.  The coax loop lays on the top plate of 
the tower and is kept from sliding off by rods sticking up out of the top 
plate corners.  260 degrees plus or minus only causes a little increase or 
decrease in the size of the loop which by the way contains 5 cables.


73

Roger (K8RI)
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> Jim W8ZR
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