thats one MONSTER cable!

onaquest · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: thats one MONSTER cable!

Just received 70 feet of LMR600 and both male and female N connectors. WOW!!!! that is some really really heavy gauge stuff!. Having never seen LMR600 in person, I was expecting something half as thick and I also was expecting the connectors to be much less substantial then they are. So having said that any tips on crimping the connectors to the cable? I bought the N-Connectors that have a sleeve, the connector itself and a center connector pin which is supposed to be soldered to the center wire in the LMR600.. I also bought the very expensive lmr600 ez strip tool, so stripping the cable is not going to be much of a problem as well as the lmr600 crimp tool .610 diameter. Just curious what tips you may have for assembling this behemouth as well as any web sites that give detailed assembly instructions. Im sure i could muddle my way through it, but better safe then sorry with expensive cable and connectors!

one other question, When it comes time to ground my antenna, can I use an insulated 6 or 8 copper wire or is it better to us the bare-uninsulated style?

pismo · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

here you go:

http://www.timesmicrowave.com/connectors/drawings.shtml

look under tech for more:

http://www.timesmicrowave.com/

should help some

careful with the soldering heat on the center conductor.
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onaquest · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject:

xrayman · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:32 am Post subject: Re: thats one MONSTER cable!

onaquest · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: Re: thats one MONSTER cable!

xrayman · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject:

I usually try to hid the all the cabling as much as possible. I normally run the ground wire down the slope of the roof to the gutter. If a downspout is near by I will hide the wire behind the downspout.

n6gn · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

Living in an area with what I understand has the lowest incidence of thunder & lightning storms in the US, I'm interested to know if anyone on this forum has had a strike on or very near an external EVDO or similar cellular antenna. If you did, what happened? Did you have a separate lightning rod nearby? Did the lightning rod take the hit instead of the antenna? Did they "share" the hit? What happened to the antenna, cable and connected equipment?

There seem to be (at least) two schools of thought as to the function of lightning rods. One has them providing a protective 'umbrella' for other nearby conductors in their 'shadow' but leaking charge off and reducing the odds of an actual strike. Another has the same umbrella but expects the rod to take noticable hits.

I'm just curious and interested.

n6gn