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Re: [TowerTalk] Coax/Rotor Cable on the outside or inside of the tower

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax/Rotor Cable on the outside or inside of the tower
From: "John Hudson" <jd_hudson@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:56:28 -0500
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This may not be what you would want to use but a simple way to ground your
coax shield is to use a large ground lug out of a panel box. One of our club
members uses this
http://www.w4nja.org/HomeBrew/W4KU-Coax-Ground-20091206.htm

Simple, neat and did I say simple!

John
KO4XJ


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax/Rotor Cable on the outside or inside of the
tower

On 3/29/2012 7:00 PM, Gene Smar wrote:
> Richard:
>
>       To help ground your coax cable runs onto the tower at the top and
> bottom, as Jim suggests, you can fab up some homebrew cable ground clamps.
> I wrote up a description at
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-07/msg00698.html
.
> Joe KC2TN took photos of his
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2007-10/msg00356.html
.
>
I just use a bulkhead connector, top and botton.

There may be a tiny bit more loss, but it's simple.

73

Roger (K8RI)


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