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[TowerTalk] Burying radials and/or coax

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Burying radials and/or coax
From: wy6k@yahoo.com (Michael Watts)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:00:24 -0800 (PST)
A neat idea, Don!

--- Don Havlicek <n8de@thepoint.net> wrote:
> 
> I bury my coax with a device that I built that I pull behind my garden
> tractor .. it has a flat bed upon which I mount the coil of coax, and
> has a 'knife-blade' [made of a triangular piece of 1/8" aluminum panel
> stock] under it which cuts a swath in the turf .. it also has short
> lengths of aluminum tubing
> [various diameters from 3/8" up to 1.5"} projecting underneath the 'bed'
> which guide the coax, radial wire, etc... down into the 'slot'.  I can
> 'bury' 200' of coax in about ten minutes, just driving the tractor from
> the shack to the antenna [or vice-versa].


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