Rotor and coax strapped together?

[VE4BLB]

For apperance sake, I want to run the RG213, the rotor cable, and the SteppIR control cables strapped together to the tower leg. It is a 48 foot tower and I will (someday) have a linear.
Do you see any problems doing this?

[WA7PRC]

For apperance sake, I want to run the RG213, the rotor cable, and the SteppIR control cables strapped together to the tower leg. It is a 48 foot tower and I will (someday) have a linear.
Do you see any problems doing this?

I will be OK if you don't have significant RF current flowing on the outside of the feedline, or leakage from the feedline. The shield on RG-213 has 97% coverage.

[KO6WB]

That's right, if you do not have any common mode radiation from the coax shield you will not have any problems. This depends on the antenna you plan on running. Most are not a going to cause anything to happen. Just be aware that if you do have common mode then you may need to fix that. There have been no reports from SteppIR antennas having issues with RF getting into the controls and making things difficult. So you should be okay.
Hope this helps
73
Gary

[N0AZZ]

I don't have a SteppIR but do have a 10-40m beam plus 6/2m yagis amd a 2m vertical with rotor cable and coax from 2 wire antennas (some RF) tied together not to tower but to stand-offs running 1k with no problems.

[W8JI]

I bundle all my cables and control lines going up towers, or out to antennas, once outside the house area.

[WB2WIK]

I bundle all my cables and control lines going up towers, or out to antennas, once outside the house area.

So do I. Sometimes RF (at a lot of power) will couple a bit into the rotator cable and make the meter wiggle slightly on the rotator control box while transmitting, but that can be prevented by grounding the outer conductor of the coax in a few places (like to the tower leg at top and bottom, etc).