[time-nuts] GPS antenna installation problem

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Mar 4 22:37:14 UTC 2009


In message <48E1C1775B054C2E9D30E7782A40A7B5 at cyrus>, "Bill Hawkins" writes:

>Several people said 20 feet unsupported was too long, but I'm not gonna
>fill a 10 foot, 6 inch diameter pipe with foam. I'll get some light
>chain [...]

Over here you can buy a clothes-line which is actually a nylon covered
un-spun steel-wire.  I use that for such cableruns because it is easy
to string it up and it stays taught all year.  Tie the coax to it with
nylon strips every feet.

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