Needed a drawing to figure out needed cables and connectors. Made this in PowerPoint, of all things!

Trencher almost done with 300 foot long trench, which will contain 8 runs of hardline, 3 runs of three conductor direct bury electric line, and two 4-inch corrugated drain tile for rotor wire and other misc future wires.

Trench was about 3 feet deep. Trenching was done on December 16th, 2004, perhaps a day or two before the ground froze.

The house end of the trench. Radio room is behind window to the left. Two 4 inch PVC pipes going into the house can be seen to the right of the window.

Dick K0MN rolling out 4 inch drain tile that will be buried in trench.

Trencher finishes up his work, while ground crew finishes rolling out hardline.

My friend Gary from the phone company doing the trenching thing.

Ron N9OY, Mark N9UNW and Bill KE9XQ roll out some 3/4 inch CATV 75 ohm hardline (donated by local cable company)

View of front of the cable box, which is telephone company surplus. 4 inch PVC pipes that go into the closet near the radio room can be seen on left side.

Side view of cable box. Radio room is behind window on left side.

Back side of cable box. Have not backfilled yet.

Cut the hardline & drain tile just so it fit. Still have to install connectors, lightning protection, etc.

This is the box by the house, with feedlines and conduits from tower coming in. Poly Phaser lightning protectors are installed but not grounded yet.

Close-up of the hardline coming from the tower, then transitioning to PolyPhaser lightning protectors, then to RG8-equiv into the house.

Mounted aluminum sheet to back of cabinet, then used aluminum channel (bent into L brackets and drilled) to mount the Polyphasers to the sheet.

Closeup of PolyPhasers mounted to aluminum sheet. Back row is all the 7/8" Andrew, and the front row is the 3/4" CATV.

Another close-up of the PolyPhaser mounting, and the transition from hardline to RG-213.

All the cables are routed into the house via this 4 inch PVC. Big thanks to KB9YXV for cutting the hole in the box, and constructing this pipeline!!

I have two 4 inch holes in the house for cables, but only need one of them for now.

Another great telephone company relay box recycled for ham radio!

Big thanks to Terry KB9YXV for fashioning the tower mount for this box, and for punching the holes in the bottom of the box!!

Inside the box. FYI, those are 4-inch drain tile pipes that run from tower to house. Only one has anything in it so far.