Chuck, I had a commercial coring company out to my QTH and cut an 8" hole
in my poured concrete basement wall. I'm pretty sure they could do brick
with no problem It's a beautiful smooth, clean hole inside and out. The
large diameter allows me to place a bulkhead plate on the outside of the
wall with Polyphaser lightning arrestors mounted on the inside of the plate
and out of the weather. This arrangement also acts like a patch block of
sorts and lets me disconnect radios and antennas very easily. The cost of
the job was three hundred dollars and was one of the best purchases I made
setting up the new station.
Tom Hybiske, K3GM
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> So...first question. The new home is brick outside, wallboard inside.
> What is the best way to get the cables into the shack? The current QTH is
> wood clapboard exterior. Drill, poke the cable through and seal the hole.
> I suppose a masonry bit will do the trick at the new house but is there a
> better way? The shack only has one window, so I'd rather avoid the
> plexiglass window feed-throughs as they would seem to require some weather
> stripping that would make the window difficult to open for ventilation in
> temperate weather.
>
> How about a large PVC pipe run through the wall? Harder to seal but only
> need one hole. How hard is that to install? Can't do it with a masonry
> bit, that's for sure. Bear in mind I'm no carpenter/plumber/electrician
> but do know how to look them up in the phone book.
>
> That's my first dilemma. Brick construction is uncommon up here in New
> england so I wonder if I'm overlooking a simple solution. The house is 6
> years old, single story, built on a slab if it matters.
>
> 73,
> =======================
> Chuck Chandler
> WS1L
> chchandler@adelphia.net
> =======================
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