I just put a little snip in the carpet and drilled a hole through the wooden
floor and pushed the coax and PL259 through the hole. In fact I have several
holes through the floor of the shack into the crawl space below.
Mark N1UK
----- Original Message -----
From: <n8de@thepoint.net>
To: "Dan Evans" <dan.evans@insightbb.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, 21 October, 2010 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bringing feedlines through the floor
>I lifted one edge of a real heating duct, then, with some prying,
> moved one side of the duct away from the opening and ran all the coax
> and control lines through the new opening which is below the floor
> level.
> Soon will need to run one ladder-line through that opening and not
> sure how well I can insulate it from the metal of the duct.
> Keep tuned.
> 73
> Don
> N8DE
>
>
> Quoting Dan Evans <dan.evans@insightbb.com>:
>
>> This brings up an issue I hope to work on soon...
>>
>> I will be running about 6 feedlines under my floor and up to my shack.
>> There will likely be two runs of LDF4 and probably 4 runs of RG8. The
>> SPG will be just outside the house, before the lines go under the floor.
>>
>> I haven't decided yet best / neatest method of passing the lines through
>> the floor. I've considered cutting a 4x12 rectangular opening in the
>> floor about the same size as a heat duct, or something similar. Just
>> thought I would ask, "how do you do it?"
>>
>> 73
>> Dan
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>> On 10/21/2010 9:06 AM, n8de@thepoint.net wrote:
>>> Ditto.
>>>
>>> I'm willing to bet that the great majority of hams use an aluminum
>>> plate for SPG. Mine is 1/4" thick and replaces the foundation 'vent'
>>> under my shack window.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Don
>>> N8DE
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