Hi Stew,
I have been using colored tape to mark the bands for many years - I remember
the wasted time and unnecessary mistakes before I switched to this
"strategy".
Radio Shack sells a 5 colored tape pack for about $4.00. It has Green,
Yellow, Blue, White and White. This, together with your black tape, makes
six bands.
The tape is not the greatest quality and does not stand up well to
Northeastern winters but I wrap it a few times around the coax and this
helps it to stay on.
My XYL likes it too - another bonus.
73
Bob KQ2M
----- Original Message -----
From: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
To: towertalk reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:35 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Marking Coax Cables
> I recently read that a good way to mark coax cables
> (think it was at W4AN's station) used different
> colored tape applied to the cables to show the
> different bands, etc. I've been looking but have yet
> to find a "set" of tape with more than three colors.
> Since one of the colors was black, there were only two
> colors available to use on black coax! It would be
> nice to find a set with nine colors like the resistor
> color code. Anyone ever run across something like
> this?
>
> 73, Stew K3ND
>
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