Again workers are up at the tower. After lunch I went up to see what was going on.
One worker was up the tower attaching brackets to each horizontal bar on the tower, this is to hold the cables that are attached to the dishes. I asked one of the ground crew how many wires were in the cable, he looked up and smiled and said none. Yes it's just an empty elliptical tube with corrugated metal either copper clad or all copper covered with a rubber protective coating. The tube transmits microwaves from the dish to the equipment. One end connected to the dish and the other to the devices in the shed. The tube is pressurized to around 5psi. to keep out the moisture.
Before I could get home the snow was starting to come down pretty good and it's still snowing tonight. Break out the snowblowers again.
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