[MRCA] remote antenna conduit?

[KA1LHZ]

You could also cut the cable and install a Molex connector 3' from the
end. It would be small enough to pull through the conduit and have
enough pins to satisfy the needs of the control cable. Rat Shack has
them as well as Newark and Digikey.
KA1LHZ

On 09/09/2013 01:29 AM, W2HX wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> As part of building a new shack, I am taking this opportunity to run
> some conduit from the shack out to the backyard for a vertical antenna
> hidden amongst the trees.  In addition to coax, I'll need to run a
> coupler control cable. I will either run my Mackay tuner out there or
> my sunair 1KW tuner out there. Both of these tuners have an existing
> cable with the circular MS-style connectors on the ends.
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> Here's the question. When you guys run antenna cables out to your
> antennas, what size conduit do you use? I ask because the antenna
> coupler connectors are something like 2" in diameter! So I would
> imagine I would need a 3" diameter conduit which isn't cheap (I am
> thinking of using flexible PVC).
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> OR: Do you guys run the cable first, then bring the soldering iron up
> to the antenna site and solder on the connector there? A lot of work
> to do in an uncontrolled environment but would allow a 2" conduit to
> be installed since the connector doesn't need to be fished through it
> (it would be soldered on after the cable emerges).
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> What do you guys do?
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> One other possible idea.  Take the existing cable with connectors on
> both ends, and cut off say 3 feet from the antenna end. Then I have
> one long cable with no connector that will end near the antenna. I
> could then use a weather proof box with a barrier strip inside and
> connect each of the wires in the control cable to this barrier strip.
> Then take the 3 foot piece of cable with the other connector and again
> attached the wires from the cut side to this same barrier strip.
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> Thoughts?
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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