Too much dissimilar metal. Good idea though.
Thanks for sharing.
73
Jim W7RY
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From: "John Hudson" <jd_hudson@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:56 PM
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax/Rotor Cable on the outside or inside of
thetower
> 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-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:25 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> 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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