Got the control cable feedthrough gland put in and attached the MOV block to the entrance ground and the control cable pulled through and hooked up.

Only big downside is that it's direct-burial telecom cable, and that stuff has silicone grease throughout as a moisture barrier/displacement. Godawful stuff (better than the blue drippy goo that used to be in direct-burial TV coax, that stuff is VILE), but removable with isopropyl and a paper towel.

Tomorrow I'll get the manual tuner trigger together and see what happens with applying some RF to the cable!

#HamRadio #AntennaDIY #hamr

@Stormgren I'm so glad I get to follow you on Mastodon! That is beautiful work.

@adamcsmith Thank you, I appreciate it! I try to do the best possible job I can to show off what one CAN do with a build, even if you're not doing it "professionally".

Here's a link to a post with the pic of the whole box from earlier this year when I redid the ground bar and installed the RG-213 feeding the vertical:

https://obsidianmoon.com/@Stormgren/110601250301750154

Stormgren (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image It's installed at the house end at least at the shack entrance. #HamRadio

Obsidian Moon
@Stormgren Why did you install the caps after the block?

@jevidl They're not caps, they're Metal-Oxide Varistors (MOVs) so I can hopefully surge-suppress the control lines in case the event of Very Exciting Electricity happens in the backyard. Same beasties as the ones in your AC surge suppressor strip, but I bought these with a much lower forward voltage and an absurdly high current rating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varistor for those who don't know what part I'm talking about.

And depending on your point of view, they're also "before" the block too, esp as the tuner's wire is on the same post as the MOV. 😛​

Really, it doesn't matter where they go, as long as they're connected to ground so surge currents shunt that-a-way when they need to kick in.

Honestly they got positioned that way so they weren't banging into the ground bar, and so the spade lugs on the shack-side control cable would attach to the terminal block cleanly. 😁​

Varistor - Wikipedia

@Stormgren Thanks!
@jevidl You know I'm always good for some infodumping. 😋​