Try CableXperts Maybe I was wrong about the exact wire sizes but I used
the larger sized stuff that they carry. I had a lot left over from the
other towers whose rotators needed the 8 cond. version. Phil KB9CRY
Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS) wrote:
> On 06/02/05 03:14 pm Phil Camera tossed the following ingredients into
> the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
>
>> For my AlfaSpid installation, which is over 500 ft from the shack, I
>> used the following.
>>
>>> From the controller in the shack to the lightning arrestor (ICE
>>> type) just outside the window of the shack I ran regular multi
>>> conductor rotator cable (#12 for the power and used the #14 for the
>>> positioner).
>>
>
> <snip>
>
> What you are calling "regular multi conductor rotator cable (#12 for
> the power and used the #14 for the positioner)" is the kind of thing I
> was trying to find, but nobody seems to sell anything with #12
> conductors and other thinner conductors.
>
> Where did you get this stuff? Who makes it? Our local electrical
> supply house is listed on the Belden Web site as one of their vendors
> but in fact no longer carries Belden products -- not that Belden makes
> rotator cable that heavy anyway, as far as I could see.
>
> Alan NV8A
>
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