[MRCA] remote antenna conduit?

[Christopher Bowne]

...Also, you can blow or suck the tape through the conduit after installation
w/ a shopvac....

Or tap the end of it to a mouse's tail, put it in the pipe, and run down to meet it at the far end! Seriously though, I think they make "mice" plugs that can be used with the shop vac for this purpose.  Use air from a compressor for a little more oomph in the push mode. Of course, you will have to have somewhat of a loose seal around the tape on the feed end if you're pushing with air pressure rather than pulling with vacuum.



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 From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
To: Peter.Greene at L-3Com.com 
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; mrca at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [MRCA] remote antenna conduit?
 

You might be better off getting 'electrician's pull tape' because it is
marked every foot with consecutive numbers.

You get the length of the run by subtracting the numbers.

Also, you can blow or suck the tape through the conduit after installation
w/ a shopvac.

-John

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> However you implement it, make sure you run a pull line (like guy-line
> cord) also, and leave it there in case you need to pull new cable in the
> future.
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> 73,
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> Pete N2LVI
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> From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of W2HX
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 9:30 PM
> To: mrca at mailman.qth.net; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [MRCA] remote antenna conduit?
>
>
>
> 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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