Rotor Cable

[2SF924]

Will rotor cable interfer with coax? My tower is not attached to my house and the ground plane came down in the wind, so time for something a little bigger and badder:ihih: The problem is my shack is in the second story so I cun the coax to the tower on a piece of rope. Will I run into any problems running them together.

[AK295]

I have never had any interference with mine and that's using cheap crap from HomeDepot.
Only time you might, would be when your actually turning the antenna.
Ground everything (rotor, control box, radios), I'd bet you'll be ok.

[Dodgem250]

Will rotor cable interfer with coax? My tower is not attached to my house and the ground plane came down in the wind, so time for something a little bigger and badder:ihih: The problem is my shack is in the second story so I cun the coax to the tower on a piece of rope. Will I run into any problems running them together.


Are you talking about interference from signal or from the cables themselves?

The rotor will have no affect at all on the ant. / radio, nor will the opposite, but, if you mean running the coax from the radio / rotor wire up the mast together, you most certainly have to leave at least 12" slack for the rotation.

I'm pretty sure I understand what you're saying, so, the answer is no. I've installed 100's of rotors over the years and never seen the first issue with a rotor regarding interference to TV or CB signals. The rotor has 4 wires, 1 is a ground, one is voltage to the motor, and the other 2 determine the Left / Right swing, so with the ground wire on the cable, you don't need an additional ground for the rotor, it would serve no purpose if you did anyway.

[2SF924]

Thanks guys help's a bunch. Hopefully can get the base back booming here before to long.

[425]

nope u sure wont mine runs together and i do 6000

[MoJo]

Are you talking about interference from signal or from the cables themselves?

The rotor will have no affect at all on the ant. / radio, nor will the opposite, but, if you mean running the coax from the radio / rotor wire up the mast together, you most certainly have to leave at least 12" slack for the rotation.

I'm pretty sure I understand what you're saying, so, the answer is no. I've installed 100's of rotors over the years and never seen the first issue with a rotor regarding interference to TV or CB signals. The rotor has 4 wires, 1 is a ground, one is voltage to the motor, and the other 2 determine the Left / Right swing, so with the ground wire on the cable, you don't need an additional ground for the rotor, it would serve no purpose if you did anyway.


Actually that could potentially cause a ground loop which will give you all sorts of shit and cause headaches to track down.

So like dodgem said. One ground should be sufficient.