Looking for cable mounting brackets/ties for LMR400 for siding.

[Onelasttime]

So I know I will need to drill pilot holes in advance.

The siding on my current home is steel siding not vinyl and not aluminium. It is fairly thick heavy steel. It has a bark like patern.

Since one of my 3 sons post college has moved back home I need to and want to put a radio by my computer in the living room.

Unlike the back side of my home this is on the front of my home and side and open to public view. I want the coax to hug the house so it looks nice. What am I looking for? Thanks!

 

[9C1Driver]

Take your pic, there are many options.

cable mounting clips - Google Search

 

[Cable Guy]

Being an ex cable guy (CATV and SAT), I never cared for wrapping a home in coax, it looks tacky and can detract from the aesthetic, if that's important to you. Are you on a slab or do you have a crawlspace/basement? Are you able to put pl259 connectors on?

 

[Quiksilver]

Sticky Backs may be an option.

 

[Onelasttime]

Being an ex cable guy (CATV and SAT), I never cared for wrapping a home in coax, it looks tacky and can detract from the aesthetic, if that's important to you. Are you on a slab or do you have a crawlspace/basement? Are you able to put pl259 connectors on?

Well How I want to run it is from my living room outside wall around front side of garage to side of garage. It is not a long run. I currently have 100ft of LMR100 and 18feet of LMR200 Ultra Flex onhand from Sage Maiden prefinished.

Yes I am able to solder and do coax but I have not done any since late 2000. It has always been too easy to just get nicely finished coax in advance.

I have basement and a slab. The area I want to run the coax is at the end of my basements outside wall and the entire length after that is my drive way and garage which is slab with no crawl space for either.

In college I did Centeral Office Installs for AT&T, Sprint, MCI, WorldCom. I also did fiber optics for AT&T for a while. I installed my own Sat Gear, and when ever I got laid off frm GM I would manage the installers for friends Direct TV company. My oldest son worked for Dish as an installer for a while after he got out of the Army for a while.

In my Youth I did coax routinely in a shop right up to some pretty large Heliax. Like I said post college from about 2000 on it was too easy to purchase what I needed.

I need to measure to be sure but I am talking about a run wraping the house that will not exceed 150feet for sure depending on how high up I mount the Antron 99 I have had sitting in the box for a few decades.

I have two heavy steel (T) shaped clothes lines. I am thinking about mounting a 10-20 foot mast pipe to one of them. This will just be for CB. My wife goes to bed around 8:30pm 10:00pm lastest and I do not want to operate in bedroom until my son get's his own place. This is temporary at best. I am not worried best practice.

I do not want it to like white trash I want it to look decent even though I do not have an HOA. My son's room was my radio and reloading room and the wifes sewing room. It just has to be better than my car and clean looking. I might add other ham specific antenna's latter. I want to get it done before frost and winter set in.

 

[Cable Guy]

Well then, you already know just about anything I could add, but for the clips, what size coax are you going to use, lmr100? 200? 400? That's still a sizable hole in the side of your wall for a penetration if using premade cables. I'm reading this to be a temporary setup, but I could be wrong.

If using 400...these can work

Rubber Insulated Clamp Assortment, 18-Piece

Amazing deals on this 18 Piece Rubber Insulated Clamps at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.

www.harborfreight.com

If 200, maybe some rg6 screw clips? If 100, perhaps some ground wire screw clips. You may need to open the ground clips up some with a drill, I never use 100 but Google says it's less than half the diameter of rg6.

I will add, I didn't realize so many have a reloading/radio room, I thought my setup was unique, but this site has proven me wrong.

 

[unit_399]

AMAZON has a large selection of cable clamps. Stainless steel rubber coated.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Cable+cl...mps,aps,218&ref=nb_sb_noss_1&tag=worradfor-20

J.J. 399

 

[Eldorado828]

AMAZON has a large selection of cable clamps. Stainless steel rubber coated.

Amazon.com : Cable clamps

J.J. 399

That's exactly what I used to run rg213 down the side of my house. Several choices and what I thought looked the cleanest.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

My parents got a new furnace one time, and it was put in the attic. The installers ran the Freon lines up the side of the house and put it inside a piece of gutter downspout. The downspout is a normal thing to have on the side of the house and was surely better than the bare lines. A downspout is way bigger than what you need, but maybe something else along that line would work? Like maybe a piece of moulding or trim that goes to the siding you have might work.

 

[Onelasttime]

I found some at Elliot Electronics. I just got them in and have not opened the box yet. They looked good online. I will try to take some pictures and put up the part number when I get around to it.

Monday is my day off and the wifes day off. I did not sleep from Midnight to 7am but did sleep great from 7am to 12 noon so I got late start. I needed the sleep though thought I was running a fever.

So today outside of grocery shopping I changed the brakes on the wifes vechile and was wornout. My hands do not work like they used to they goes south fairly quickly and once they do all fine motor skills go out the window and my hands start to cramp and spasm.

I am hoping I can get to it next Monday.

 

[Onelasttime]

Thanks Guys!