I have been following this thread with great interest..... My house out here in KH6 should be finished by July and I hope to get my tower up after that. My permit has been approved for a 150 footer.
The 16-conductor cable for the MonstIR and 4-el uses #22 gauge stranded wire. Before you do anything, you should contact SteppIR to verify that they have tested the antennas and controller with a ca
Bill, I would be very concerned about using a 650' control cable for this antenna after reading about all of AH6FC's problems with a four element SteppIR and a 500' cable. You'll need the factory to
Would it be possible to locate the SteppIR controller at the base of the tower and remotely control the controller itself from the shack? I think there are software programs that allow you to control
Wouldn't it be simpler to design a proper line driver that would interface the SteppIR controller to a long cable? Dave AB7E _______________________________________________ __________________________
Maybe, maybe not. It's just another possibility. The point is that there HAS to be a way to make it work without moving the tower closer to the house :-) _____________________________________________
Yes with enough engineering knowledge, time and money it is very possible. Maybe someone will design a driver box for long cable runs _______________________________________________ _________________
Actually.. I think it would be better to make the "power handling" wires the short ones, and the "information handling wires" (the RS232 connection) the long one. Rather than try and develop and buil
Jim, you may have hit the nail square on the head (as usual)! If the StepIR will work that way from a user interface point of view (that is, if the user controls aren't on the box that you want to mo
Or, if the rates are slow, my current favorite scheme is to use some opto isolators at both ends of the line. The TxD from the controller goes to the LED in the opto. An external power supply provide