I have a problem I've never seen discussed. I thought I'd collect some
ideas here.
I am building a medium-to-large size contest station here in Central
Florida. It will have four towers; one is next to the house, the others no
closer than 100', with the farthest out about 350'. I have been trying to
determine the best way to run CATV hardline, coax, and rotor/control cables
out to the towers.
I figure I have two choices: above ground and below ground.
Here's my concerns:
1) Lightning. Central Florida has about 100 days a year with
lightning. As if
that were not bad enough, our lightning is 2 - 3
times as powerful as your
average, run-of-the mill thunderbolt.
2) UV. The sun is VERY strong; this can seriously degrade plastics,
such
as cable jackets.
3) Water table. The back of my property is swamp. The water table is
therefore very high. I can't bury the cable very
deep without having it
in a constant state of wetness.
4) Mobility. I'd like to be able to run vehicles in the area (for
mowing
weeds etc.). This means that I can't just leave the
cables sitting on
the ground.
5) Expandability. I want to be able to run another run of coax to a
tower
without a ridiculous amount of work.
6) RF on the cables. Stray RF being picked up by the other cables.
What I have to work with:
1) A big, open field. No trees, no walls, no buildings.
I imagine that if I run them above ground on poles, I'd best do like the
power companies do and run a ground wire across the very top of the poles.
Yes? No?
Any large-scale station I'm familiar with is from "up North", and utilized
trees, old walls, or whatever to make the cable runs. I've been thinking
about this for awhile, and STILL haven't come up with any brilliant
solutions.
Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated. Please respond to me directly.
My address is: "ssacco@attmail.com"; If any really cool ideas surface,
I'll report them back to the reflector.
Thanks!
Steve KC2X
Narcoosee, Florida
>From Steve Harrison <sharriso@sysplan.com> Fri Jun 10 19:10:23 1994
From: Steve Harrison <sharriso@sysplan.com> (Steve Harrison)
Subject: Bladder
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9406101423.B20867-0100000@eagle>
Not English, Californian and Texan.
Steve KO0U/4
On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, Tim Ellam wrote:
> Whats this English fixation with bladder control???
>
> Tim VE6SH, G4HUA
>
> ----
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Logical Solutions Computer Systems Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
> | Internet: logical.cuc.ab.ca (403)-299-9900 24 Lines |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>From Steve Harrison <sharriso@sysplan.com> Fri Jun 10 19:12:18 1994
From: Steve Harrison <sharriso@sysplan.com> (Steve Harrison)
Subject: Aid for single-ops?
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9406101418.C20867-0100000@eagle>
One way is for the blind contester to speak the contact into a tape
recorder. A problem, whatever media the blind ham uses for logging, is
telling time. A talking digital clock would be good; every minute or five
minutes, the clock could be automatically recorded on the logging tape.
After the contest, the blind ham could transfer the taped log to paper or
computer. This method is NOT at all the same thing as recording QSOs
directly from a receiver, and transferring the recorded log to paper or
computer after the contest is exactly the same thing as cleaning-up a
hand-written log after the contest.
73, Steve KO0U/4 <sharrison@sysplan.com>
On Fri, 10 Jun 1994, Takao Kumagai wrote:
> What will be the appropriate advice to the blind ham who
> attend the contest together with his xyl as a logger in
> the single op category.
>
> This must be multi op class. And I know what single op means.
>
> I believe he wished to join us very much but great difficulty
> to log the qso by himself at real time.
> Is there no way to submit the log as multi-op?
> Touch-typing will be encouraged? How can he know the typo?
>
> I hope to have the way which let him stay with us in contesting.
>
> Any suggestions, advice or tech. hints will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
>
> Tack JE1CKA
>
|