Your chinese finger trap supports are available at any reasonably sized electrical supply house. Don
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal Murray" <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS antenna installation problem > >> Two or one tee connectors will allow the cable to exit and reenter. If >> your side arm is using a elbow now replace it with a tee. > > Thanks, but I don't picture what you are trying to describe. > > Are you talking about tees and elbows in the pipe or cable? > > I was thinking of the simple case with only a simple vertical pipe to a > single antenna, no side arms. > > Maybe the answer is that you can't support the cable in the really simple > case of one vertical pipe with the antenna on top. If you want to support > the cable you have to have some other setup so you can get at the cable. > > How about a different question? How much cable can a connector support? > > How would I support a cable anyway? I'm thinking of something like a > Chinese > finger trap with a string on one end that gets attached to a string. Are > there cable clamp gizmos that are tight enough to grab but loose enough > not > to distort the cable and also work over temperature cycling and ... > > Is low loss coax stiff enough that I can support it from the bottom and > push > it up into a pipe? (I'm assuming the pipe is narrow enough and/or the > coax > is stiff enough to hold the coax in place.) > > > -- > These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.