On 4/15/2012 11:38 AM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote:
> Remember if you run a three or four wire cage to the top of the tower it
> is the cage, not the tower, that does most of the radiation.
Right.
> This I
> would think makes running cable inside the tower not important.
My tower climbers feel that inside the tower also makes it safer to
climb -- they're taped to a leg all the way up.
> Additionally, with crank ups running cables inside a tower can be a real
> mess. On crank up cables need some sort of offset. OK, just make a
> cage that is space much farther away from the tower than the drop wires
> and coax. This should be better than having your coax and rotor cables
> chewed up when you do the crank down procedures at night with an
> approaching storm.
Obviously crankups are a very different kettle of fish mechanically.
Like anything else, it's a compromise.
73, Jim K9YC
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