VE7HCB wrote:
>>You think training installers to seal properly is easier than
>>installing a simple pressurization system? Nope!
>I hope that the instalers are not reading this!!
The CATV industry learned early on to design systems that
could be installed by the average installer - probably a
little below average, on average!
>>BTW, bullet holes in the coax IS a very real concern for stations
>>in metro areas.
>Is that the competition? How do they get away with firing in an urban
>area. Here we have a "sanitary land fill site" within the city limits. A
>RCMP officer was target practicing they. But he almost lost his job and
>put away for awhile.
One station I work for on a regular basis has rectangular
waveguide instead of coax, and it is regularly popped with
22 shells. This isn't Canada, for sure.
I'd hate to think though that I couldn't plink the woodchucks
around my place. I'd be overrun with em otherwise.
73,
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Steve K8LX
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