[TowerTalk] A Couple of Rotor/Coax Cable Questions

[Mike & Becca Krzystyniak]

Greetings, 

Years back I acquired a Yaesu 2800 series rotor.  IIRC the control cable was a pre-fabbed black jacketed PVC type cable.

A local is selling a NOS/NIB G2800 and I noticed the control cable is a gray color now, and the cable is quite flexible.  Having a bad experience with gray jacketed coax before I was wondering if anyone has a Yaesu 2800 rotor with this type of control cable on their tower now, and how it is holding up?


My second question is related to the right way to dress out coax on a HDX589MDPL tower. To keep the cable off the ground I think ~22' looped off between each coax arm is correct.  Any other advice or suggestions on this woould be appreciated?

Regarding the coax itself I have a 350' run down and into the shack.  I was considering using a LMR600 or LMR900 sized coax to come down the tower and over to a service panel?  I'm concerned standard LMR is too stiff and as such susceptible to damage from bending?  I read pro and con using the -UF variant instead?  Again thoughts and comments or other options would be appreciated.  

Thanks

73's  Mike K9MK/5