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Cable thrue the roof

Since I placed my antennas last year, I just put the coax cables thrue the roofwindow. A pretty fast solution but far from ideal, especially in wintertime since I can’t really close one window. Some time ago I bought an rooftile of lead. I think it is originally destined for some kind of mast. But if you mount it up-side-down it could be a great way to put coax cables thrue inside.
So I removed one rooftile and gently drilled a hole in it. Mounted the lead on top of it and put the tile on the roof again. Putted the cables thrue and sailed the whole thing with vulcanization tape. It looks pretty solid, let’s hope that is survives the winter!

Rooftile to be modifiedLedtile to cover original tileLocation on the roof for the modificationHole underneath the tile for the cables

Job finished!


Categorised as: Antenna's


One Comment

  1. Paul PC4T says:

    It’s a good solution, because otherwise you’ll freeze in your shack. Still I have no antenna on the roof. I am a little afraid to climb on top of the roof. So I still have my wire and that will do for the moment. Conditions on HF are very poor and that will stay that way this year. 73, Paul

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