Is it safe to suspend coax in midair?
 

Hello,
I'm thinking about suspending approximately 100 feet of 9913 coax on
a cable to run it out to my new antenna site. I will be using an
ameritron rcs8vl remote antenna switch going to two dipoles and three
verticals. What I'm looking for from the group would be an
electrically / RF safe method of doing this. I have considered going
underground for the run, but would have to go under a patio and over
our septic system. Thanks for any ideas.
Rob Brown
KB8WWS

yep, works fine, lasts a long time, much easier to construct. the only down
side is that some people don't like to look at it.

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Hello,
I'm thinking about suspending approximately 100 feet of 9913 coax on
a cable to run it out to my new antenna site. I will be using an
ameritron rcs8vl remote antenna switch going to two dipoles and three
verticals. What I'm looking for from the group would be an
electrically / RF safe method of doing this. I have considered going
underground for the run, but would have to go under a patio and over
our septic system. Thanks for any ideas.
Rob Brown
KB8WWS

Bob Brown, KB8WWS wrote:
"I have considered going underground for the run, but would have to go
under a patio and over our septic system."

Complicated. Do as phone and cable companies do. Use a messenger cable
to uniformly support the coax along its length. No cable strain or
connector separation. Take care waterproofing all joints.

Best regtards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

You should consider lightning, if it's common in your area.
If you take a strike at the antennas, the potential at the shack
end of that elevated coax will be huge. I would have some way
to disconnect and ground outside, if you were to do that.
In general, elevated coax is not a great idea, although there are
no "rf" problems in doing so.
MK

I had thought about the problems with lightning. I purchased the
version of the rcs8v with lightning protection for each of the antennas
connected to it. I will also have additional lightning protection
before the coax enters the building. Hopefully my station won't end up
being the best path to ground.
Thanks for the responses,
Rob Brown
kb8wws

On 3 Aug 2005 19:49:15 -0700, Rob Brown wrote:
I had thought about the problems with lightning. I purchased the
version of the rcs8v with lightning protection for each of the antennas
connected to it. I will also have additional lightning protection
before the coax enters the building. Hopefully my station won't end up
being the best path to ground.
Thanks for the responses,
Rob Brown
kb8wws

Sloppy Google posters posting without any quoted material make for
infuriating ng reading as it is. But, have 2 or more Google posters
running on as if this is a chat room is off the scale.

http://groups.google.com/googlegroup...html#summarize
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#quote

Jonesy

"Sloppy Google posters posting without any quoted material make for
infuriating ng reading as it is. But, have 2 or more Google posters
running on as if this is a chat room is off the scale."

I'm so sorry that I confused you. I'll go flog myself with birtch
branches and pray until a sign from the gods of the holy news group
tell me I'm forgiven.
Thanks for the usefull information to my original posting,
Rob Brown
kb8wws

On 04/08/2005 12:04 PM, Rob Brown wrote:
On 04/08/2005 10:31 AM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
"Sloppy Google posters posting without any quoted material make for
infuriating ng reading as it is. But, have 2 or more Google posters
running on as if this is a chat room is off the scale."

I'm so sorry that I confused you. I'll go flog myself with birtch
branches and pray until a sign from the gods of the holy news group
tell me I'm forgiven.
Thanks for the usefull information to my original posting,

No birch flogging necessary! He/she is right, though. This is a public
forum, and it helps if the thread of conversation is succinct, but
complete. Even if "Fear of Opinions" (is the mere presence of such a
userID contrary to USENET?) didn't exactly give you any useful
information, the main complaint might be that your public thread did not
offer much more, simply because of the format.

For what it's worth, I was actually interested in the original post, but
was not able to follow the thread without difficulty.

Once could think of this in a different way: English speakers have many
ad hoc rules they adhere to when conversing with other English speakers.
There are many shared notions of communication that are outside of
official grammar that we stick to to maximize understanding. Written
communication is no different, except that specific situations like
USENET may require a closer set of specific ad hoc rulesets.

Things like bottom posting and obvious, succinct quoting just help
everything work better. Well, it helps in cases where the participants
are not spoiling for a fight.

TTYL.

-- jdv

"Standards are wonderful. Everyone should have them."