On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, highlandham wrote:

On 10/10/2016 08:30 PM, Tekkie® wrote:
Hi all, I want to run a coax into to my house bedroom because I'm disabled.
I recall reading having a short piece of electrical pipe placed through the
wall and sealed after the coax is run. Any other ideas? How much of a tail
should brought into the room?


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If a hole in the outer wall is required ,please ensure that that hole is
drilled in such a way that the conduit pipe is sloping down from inside to
outside to prevent water ingress.

That's a good point, the sort of thing that should be obvious, but
probably gets forgotten.

I was certainly thinking about keeping the cold out. One year I had some
really thick coax, was it RG-17?, coming through a window, didn't want to
leave anything permanent. So all that cold winter the sliding part of the
outer window was partially open, to let the coax through there, and let
the end sit between the two windows. And then when I wanted to use the
antenna, I'd open the inner window and uncoil the bit of coax there, and
connect a piece that went to the rig.

I can't believe I did that, it didn't make things very warm.

Michael