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Originally Posted by newhallone
Now is the time to route the cables. The tower is in the center of the house. What do I do? Run the cable down the roof or run it through a convenient hole in the roof cap? My concern is grounding. It would be great to come in the roof cap, into the garage where I can run it where ever I want in the house easily.
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If it's coax cable, you can run it where it's convenient. Just be sure to provide rain "drip loops" just before it enters the roof, so you don't give water a sneak path inside.
If you're using twin lead, you'd need to keep conductive pipes and other metal reasonably far away (a few inches). Twin lead, when dry, is lower loss than coax. Thicker coax is less lossy, but still more lossy than twin lead.