When I lived back East, I planted CatNip in several places out back.
It attracted
every Cat for miles. No more critter problems !!
73, Dick, W1KSZ
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:47 AM, N2TK, Tony <tony.kaz@verizon.net> wrote:
> A couple of years ago I started using Scotch Brite stainless steel scrubbing
> pads. I push them into the end of the tubing to cover any possible place
> that the critters could get into. Since I did that I have not had any more
> critters get into the tubing. Where I have 4" holes in my concrete wall for
> coax and control cables I first fill all the spaces with fiberglass
> insulation then push in some Scotch Brite pads.
> This way it is easy to get out again to add or change cables, keeps the cold
> out and keeps the critters out.
>
> N2tK, Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eugene Jensen
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 12:54 AM
> To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chipmunks
>
> Buy Duct Seal at your Home Depot in the Elect. Dept. It like clay and you
> can dig it out of your conduct when you need add wire ect. It comes in 1LBS
> bricks. 73 Gene K2QWD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 11:25 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chipmunks
>
> On 1/13/2012 3:54 PM, Art Trampler wrote:
>> ALVIN!!!!
>>
>> --- On Fri, 1/13/12, Bill Ogden<ogden@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Bill Ogden<ogden@us.ibm.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chipmunks
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Date: Friday, January 13, 2012, 9:52 AM
>>
>>
>> Chipmunks got into my conduit (3" PVC) between my shack and my tower
>> and did a job on cable insulation. They shorted several wires in the
>> SteppIR control cable (blowing driver chips in the controller) and
>> even ate bits of the SHIELD from several places in several coax
>> cables. (There were different types of coax, and the chipmunks worked
>> on all of them. No one type, such as the direct burial cables, was
>> immune.)
>>
>> I am replacing the controller cable and the main coax to my beam. I
>> cut out the bad parts of other coax and spliced them (using proper
>> plugs and the short barrel connectors) -- these are for 80/40 antennas
>> and now check OK when measured going to a dummy load.
> Here the conduit ends in a large NEMA enclosure. Photo 7 from the top and
> the bottom 4 on the page
> http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/cablebox.htm. There are no "open"
> openings in the enclosure. They are either conduit, compression fittings, or
> coax bulkhead connectors. The old NEMA enclosure had a conduit stub, but
> critters were getting in that and particularly in the winter when the snow
> would reach or cover the opening of the stub. Of course in summer it was a
> prime target for paper wasps.
>
>>
>> I'll do a better job of blocking the ends of the conduit.
>>
>> QUESTION: Will moth balls in the conduit help? Will they harm the coax
>> outer cover? (Unfortunately, the neighborhood cats are too well fed
>> --- they usually just watch the chipmunks.)
> My big ol' "used to be Tomcat" is way over fed on chipmunk steaks. If they
> move he's on 'em, but he ignores the results of mechanical disposal. Those
> critters are really destructive. I had to start leaving the cat out longer
> than I like, to get rid of them. They actually dug down in front of the
> egress window and into the weep tile.
> They must have built an apartment complex down there. It took over 1
> 1/2 of those large cans of expandable foam (the stuff that gets rigid) to
> fill the burrow. We've had no problems with them since then. At least if
> they made it to the sump in the basement they couldn't climb out of it.
> Unfortunately they'll probably be back next spring.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
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