Correction. I've *since* pulled 2 runs of RG-11 and a control cable through.
> From: guy_molinari@hotmail.com
> To: k7awbgoog@gmail.com; towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:30:38 +0000
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] methods of using conduit in the ground for cables
>
>
> I assembled the conduit sections by sliding the sections one by one over the
> batch of cables. This batch consisted of 2 runs of 1/2" hard line plus a rope
> messenger. I drilled weep holes on the underside of each section of conduit
> as I went. Then I filled the trench. I've pulled through 2 runs of RG-11 plus
> a control cable. The run is 80' long to one of my towers.
>
> Easy squeezzzy.
>
> 73,
> Guy N7ZG
>
>
> > From: k7awbgoog@gmail.com
> > To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
> > Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:14:50 -0700
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] methods of using conduit in the ground for cables
> >
> > As long as we are on the topic, which would be better?
> >
> > 1) secure the 4 inch conduit sections together in the trench and then fill
> > in the trench with dirt on top so the sections could not move when pulling
> > cables through them, or
> >
> > 2) keep the trench unfilled, but the 4 inch conduit sections put together,
> > and pull the cables through them without the dirt on top?
> >
> > As I see it, once you put the dirt on top, there is no going back, but the
> > conduit does not move. On the other hand, conduit without weight on it will
> > tend to move as the cables as pulled through, especially when the "last"
> > cable is tried.
> >
> > Comments from you who have done this.....
> >
> > 73
> > Steve Sala
> > K7AWB
> > DN17es
> > Nine Mile Falls, WA
> >
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