[600MRG] Some advice needed...as usual

[Edward R Cole]

Ken,

Last spring I needed a similar enclosure for my two rack-mount Astron 
28v PS and 12v NewMar PS to be installed on the concrete pad under my 
16-foot eme dish.  I selected a high density plastic tool cady made 
for riding in the back of pickup trucks.  The one I chose was sold at 
Walmart where I was then working so I got a 10% employee discount.

Here are some pictures:
http://www.kl7uw.com/Dish_Oct20-2013_002.jpg
http://www.kl7uw.com/DishPS_09.jpg
http://www.kl7uw.com/DishPS_03.jpg
http://www.kl7uw.com/DishPS_02.jpg

complete links are on this webpage:
http://www.kl7uw.com/eme1296.htm


73, Ed  - KL7UW

At 02:25 PM 12/14/2013, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>OK. I need to install a remote antenna tuner. The unit I am building
>is pretty big, but will do the job.
>
>The advice I need from you kind folks is, what sort of container can
>you suggest that will be water-tight and yet easily opened to work
>in?
>
>Some sort of plastic picnic basket or somethin' ?
>
>To fill you in a little bit: The rotary coil I am using is out of the
>BC-939 antenna tuner that originally was part of the BC-610
>transmitting setup.
>
>Since the coil is quite large and somewhat difficult to turn, I am
>using an old satellite TV dish mover and control to operate it.
>
>There will also be two fairly large relays in the box.
>
>The coil is 14" long, 9" wide and 8" high and has 1/2" thick ceramic
>end-plates. The satellite TV dish-mover has a gear-motor (with
>position sensors) that is 3" wide, 5" tall, and about 9" deep with
>the shaft sticking out of it.
>
>So, overall length with the drive attached to the coil will be on the
>order of 23".
>
>Ideas?
>
>As soon as I can get my large base-loading coil finished (8" diameter
>PVC and about 600 mH), I'll need to be able to switch that into and
>out of the base of my 55' vertical.
>
>I intend to use the BC-939 coil in series with the big coil to enable
>me to QSY a bit at 630 meters.
>
>Ken W7EKB
>
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73, Ed - KL7UW
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