On 4/15/2012 11:38 AM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote: > Remember if you run a three or four wire cage to the top of the tower it > is the cage, not the tower, that does most of the radiation.
Right. > This I > would think makes running cable inside the tower not important. My tower climbers feel that inside the tower also makes it safer to climb -- they're taped to a leg all the way up. > Additionally, with crank ups running cables inside a tower can be a real > mess. On crank up cables need some sort of offset. OK, just make a > cage that is space much farther away from the tower than the drop wires > and coax. This should be better than having your coax and rotor cables > chewed up when you do the crank down procedures at night with an > approaching storm. Obviously crankups are a very different kettle of fish mechanically. Like anything else, it's a compromise. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
