[TowerTalk] Running coax to tower

[Roger Cooke]

Hi.

  My tower is about 80ft from the house. I have a catenary wire fixed on the tower at about 15ft with a D shackle and at the house end with a wall bolt fixed right through the wall of the house, a bungalow actually, at about ten feet. I then suspend all the cables from that with a series of large cable ties fixed at every three feet.  At the tower end, the catenary is controlled by a winch, enabling me to lower the whole thing for additional cables or maintenance etc. I have a loop of cables at the tower end to allow this to happen. It all works very well. I have five coax and two control cables in it at present.
   
   At my previous place I did have an 80ft length of 4inch water pipe buried in the ground coming up into the shack. I was able to put three coax cable through that using a draw cable, but after that it all got into an awful mess, as the cables tended to corkscrew around each other. I gave up on that idea.

Regards from Roger, G3LDI
Swardeston, Norfolk.