[HoustonHam] Wire management

[Ben - ne5B]

WARNING: Coax run through the Ceiling unless you run it up next to the wall and cover it with some sort of nice covering will not appeal to the XYL or Possible Prospective XYL either.....
(I have 1st Hand Experience.)

Prior to gaining her title of XYL in 2001, she saw my old method of running coax through window at my old QTH and informed me that it would not be acceptable in my future QTH where the shack had windows facing the street.  I mentioned hole in Ceiling and that was met with a look that could fold over towers!!!   Through the wall I did drill / Cut, then I went fishing.

If you can Fish, and there's a chance selling the house, and you'd like an easy cover up without need for a sheetrocker, may I suggest: 

Getting 1 or probably 2 of the boxes that electrical plugs fit in the kind that have wings or tabs that fold out and hold the box in place with out the use of a stud.  (use these now or wait till it's time to cover up the holes)

Cut the holes in the wall for the Boxes that electrical outlets fit in.  (cant think of the name)  Put them at the level of the other plugs in the room and seperate them by at least 3" otherwise the weakened sheet rock might colapse and leave you with a bigger mess (I've been there don't ask - seems cutting with a saber saw tends to weaken sheetrock by tearing away at the backing and cracking the material between the paper.

You might want to cut the holes smaller than the boxes (cables might wear the sheet rock enlarging the holes) and wait and put the boxes in later when it's time to hide the evidence.

This of course entails drilling multiple holes (one for each coax) through the top wallplate and fishing the coaxes down through the wall to your new holes.

If the time comes to pull the coax out of the wall, replace one with an coorrectly wired electrical outlet, the other with either a phone jack or cable TV face plate.

This is the setup I am using in my realitivly new QTH, after 2 years the XYL still doesn't know a thing!!!! 


73 Ben - ne5B


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Drake Dunivan <drakedunivan at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Amateur Radio in Houston TX area <houstonham at mailman.qth.net>
Date:  Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:17:24 -0800 (PST)

>I prolly have an unique problem, but I am sure it has
>came up before.  
>
>I want to put a hole in my ceiling, so I can run some
>LMR cabling (appx 4-6 cables) to various antenna
>located on the oppisite side of those house via the
>attic.  
>
>What I am looking for is kind commerically made flange
>type thing that can go into the hole to help protect
>the drywall erroiding away from cable movement. It
>also has to look decent else my significant other will
>not allow me to punch a hole in the ceiling of our new
>house unless i can make it look nice.
>
>Thanks for any advice,
>drake
>
>
>
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