[TowerTalk] US Tower MA550 Coax Feedline

[Rick Karlquist]

I happen to have an MA550 tower but this posting is about
my 106 ft HDX5106 tower.  I am using large coax (7/8" OD) on this
tower and made two decisions about this:

1.  Instead of using the stock coax arm (which is really meant
to just guide the coax, not support it), I replaced the arm
with a piece of 2 inch water pipe, which should be much stronger.

2.  I am supporting the coax with a grip you can install
AFTER the connector is on the coax:  McMaster 70095K43.
You probably want 70095K42 for your LMR-600.

Rick N6RK



Ripton, David wrote:
> Anyone have experience using LMR-600 Flex to feed a UHF antenna on a
> MA550 Tubular Tower? I plan on feeding 220 & 432  beams any need
> low-loss coax. I don't think 9913 or LMR 400 flex would give me a low
> enough loss figure.
>
> Dave Ripton K2SIX
> 212-460-4852
> riptond at coned.com
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