Start calling you Carl! Oh! Was the my outside voice? :)
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From: "K8RI on TT" <k8ri-on-towertalk@tm.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:12 PM
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 27, Sealed
container needed for tuner
> On 4/14/2011 11:56 PM, Jim W7RY wrote:
>> Drill and thread? Why not just drill and install the fitting with a lock
>> nut? What am I missing here?
>
> What you are missing should be obvious and casts doubts on your ability
> to perceive Jim <:-)) It was me suffering from the so-called "senior
> moment" having only installed 30 or 40 of those in the past couple of
> years.<sigh>
>
> 73
>
> Roger (KI8RI)
>
>
>> 73
>> Jim W7RY
>>
>>
>>
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>> From: "K8RI on TT"<k8ri-on-towertalk@tm.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:22 PM
>> To:<towertalk@contesting.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 27, Sealed
>> container needed for tuner
>>
>>> On 4/14/2011 8:00 PM, Terry G. Glagowski wrote:
>>>> The TUPPERWARE containers lasted about 2 years at my QTH, then they got
>>>> brittle
>>>> and cracked apart... but for $9 was a good try!
>>>> The grey plastic electrical boxes available at Lowes / Home Depot for
>>>> about $25
>>>> might be a good bet...
>>>> They come with a rubber seal around the edges of a lid that screws on
>>>> tight...
>>>> BUT... you need to put an opening for the cables... suggest you simply
>>>> cut a
>>>> hole in the BOTTOM...
>>> Drill a hole and thread it (NPT) for fit the cable connectors made for
>>> the job. They come in different sizes that will fit most any cable
>>> including Rg8, 58m CAT5, LMR 400 and 600, rotator cable, ... etc.
>>> I use them for all cables not fitted to bulkhead connectors at the tower
>>> box.
>>>
>>>> Perhaps glue a PVC pipe section into the hole if you want more than
>>>> that...
>>>> Tightly sealed containers can lead to pressure differences with
>>>> temperature and
>>>> barometric changes, and a hole lets the water from condensation OUT!
>>> The 3 and 4" conduit I use lets it breathe easily.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Roger (K8RI)
>>>
>>>> Last summer, I replaced all the TUPPERWARE boxes that surrounded
>>>> junction
>>>> points
>>>> at the base of towers, and installed these boxes around coax switches
>>>> that were
>>>> out in the weather for 5 years... If the tuner fits in it OK, you will
>>>> probably
>>>> have a good choice there...
>>>>
>>>> Terry / W1TR
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: towertalk-request@contesting.com
>>>> [mailto:towertalk-request@contesting.com]
>>>>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:18 PM
>>>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>>>> Subject: TowerTalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 27
>>>>
>>>> Message: 4
>>>> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:17:14 -0500
>>>> From: chas<chasm@texas.net>
>>>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Sealed container needed for tuner
>>>> To: towertalk<towertalk@contesting.com>
>>>> Message-ID:<4DA63D0A.4050805@texas.net>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>>
>>>> I want to mount an SGC-239 tuner on the tower below a vertical. but I
>>>> need a UV
>>>> proof, sealed, water tight container that I can put the tuner inside -
>>>> and then
>>>> put that tuner in a tupperware? into another container if it can be
>>>> found. And all of this as cheap as possible.
>>>>
>>>> I think that NMEA cases are just too expensive but that might have to
>>>> be
>>>> the end
>>>> choice.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> chas k5dam
>>>>
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