Why not use two stainless washers between the coax feed thru nuts and the
lug. That should solve the dissimilar metal problem you mention.
73 Ron W8RJL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim W7RY" <jimw7ry@gmail.com>
To: "John Hudson" <jd_hudson@comcast.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax/Rotor Cable on the outside or inside of
thetower
> Too much dissimilar metal. Good idea though.
> Thanks for sharing.
> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Hudson" <jd_hudson@comcast.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:56 PM
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax/Rotor Cable on the outside or inside of
> thetower
>
>> This may not be what you would want to use but a simple way to ground
>> your
>> coax shield is to use a large ground lug out of a panel box. One of our
>> club
>> members uses this
>> http://www.w4nja.org/HomeBrew/W4KU-Coax-Ground-20091206.htm
>>
>> Simple, neat and did I say simple!
>>
>> John
>> KO4XJ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:25 PM
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax/Rotor Cable on the outside or inside of the
>> tower
>>
>> On 3/29/2012 7:00 PM, Gene Smar wrote:
>>> Richard:
>>>
>>> To help ground your coax cable runs onto the tower at the top and
>>> bottom, as Jim suggests, you can fab up some homebrew cable ground
>>> clamps.
>>> I wrote up a description at
>>> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-07/msg00698.html
>> .
>>> Joe KC2TN took photos of his
>>> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-10/msg00356.html
>> .
>>>
>> I just use a bulkhead connector, top and botton.
>>
>> There may be a tiny bit more loss, but it's simple.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Roger (K8RI)
>>
>>
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