[UK-CONTEST] Rotator choice/long rotator cable runs

[John Wilson]

This sounds like quite an elegant solution. Mains cable is likely to be 
the cheapest so for most rotators you can run two 3 core flexible mains 
cables one 1.5 or 2.5 sq mm for the 3 high current motor lines and a 
thin one say 0.75 sqmm for the 3 potentiometer lines.

73 John G3UUT

Paul Beecham wrote:
>
> You can use a readily obtainable 1.5 mm 3 or 4 core pvc  flex,  run a
> couple of lengths for the number of cores that you need.
>
>
> 73 Paul
> G6PZ
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Simon Jude <simon at simonjude.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> Can anybody help?
>>
>> I'm about to setup an X7 tribander which I'd like to locate on a
>> trailer tower in our field, upto 100m from my shack.  Having chatted
>> with local hams and looked at the Yaesu rotator manuals there seems to
>> be very little info about the problem of voltage drops over such long
>> runs of cable.
>>
>> Has anybody on the list got a similar setup to the one I plan, and if
>> so, have you had any problems with rotator voltage drops?  Are some
>> rotators better in this respect than others?
>>
>> Any tips would be appreciated
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
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