[TowerTalk] Quick Disconnect Suggestion

[Roger (K8RI)]

Dick Green WC1M wrote:
>>> What do you use for your rotator, antenna switch, etc. connectors at
>>> your SPG boxes?
>>>       
>> In one word, Nothing!  I do not normally disconnect the cables coming
>> into either station (shop or house) which are also interconnected.
>> There are just too many cables.
>>     
>
> That would have been my answer before the big disaster. Went 10+ years
> without a problem. Then the big one struck.
>   
This tower has been struck at least 15 visually verified times and was 
averaging 3 times a year, but hasn't been hit at all in the last two.  
The tribander is at 100' wile the vertically polarized 144 and 440 
arrays are at 130. There are 5 sloping dipoles from around 90 - 95', two 
UHF TV antennas around 95', and a side mounted 144/440 repeater antenna 
at roughly 50'. There's also a satellite dish at roughly 20' with 2 RG-6 
cables from it.  What happens this summer? I'll tell you next winter.

73

Roger (K8RI)