Greetings,
Years back I acquired a Yaesu 2800 series rotor. IIRC the control cable was a
pre-fabbed black jacketed PVC type cable.
A local is selling a NOS/NIB G2800 and I noticed the control cable is a gray
color now, and the cable is quite flexible. Having a bad experience with gray
jacketed coax before I was wondering if anyone has a Yaesu 2800 rotor with this
type of control cable on their tower now, and how it is holding up?
My second question is related to the right way to dress out coax on a
HDX589MDPL tower. To keep the cable off the ground I think ~22' looped off
between each coax arm is correct. Any other advice or suggestions on this
woould be appreciated?
Regarding the coax itself I have a 350' run down and into the shack. I was
considering using a LMR600 or LMR900 sized coax to come down the tower and over
to a service panel? I'm concerned standard LMR is too stiff and as such
susceptible to damage from bending? I read pro and con using the -UF variant
instead? Again thoughts and comments or other options would be appreciated.
Thanks
73's Mike K9MK/5
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