- 1. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: k1my@msn.com (Bruce Makas)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:30:02 -0700
- My principle QTH is a rural area and there is no need for me to bury the feed lines and control lines for aesthetic reasons, but is there another reason? I have several one hundred foot runs and I wa
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00455.html (8,553 bytes)
- 2. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: shr@ricc.net (Signal Hill Ranch)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:43:20 -0700
- Are you familiar with the NY-LA-BONE, the nylon chew toys for dogs?? The coyotes around here think that coax and control cables are chew toys. The chew up surface cables into 6 inch lengths. But bury
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00460.html (10,341 bytes)
- 3. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: ve7hcb@rac.ca (Chris BONDE)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:43:38 -0800
- Long time ago, squirrels and other rodents liked to chew the lead on overhead communication cables. Did lots of damage. I have heard that certain plastic was susptible to the same fate. Now about the
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00461.html (10,142 bytes)
- 4. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White, K4OJ)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:14:10 -0800
- pro: aesthetics and ease of lawn mowing absorption of rf gone astray (I know, its coax) not falling on your face when you have to climb the tower at night because you tripped over the feedlines con:
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00469.html (10,911 bytes)
- 5. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:12:14 -0500
- linemen & cable splicers about where cables ought to be. In the air, ice weighs 'em and brings 'em down, in the ground backhoes get 'em. On the ground mowers get 'em. In the air hunters shoot 'em. O
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00471.html (11,699 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca (Mike & Coreen Smith)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:18:17 -0400
- If at all possible try to angle the conduit at a downward slant, or use drain pipe (holes facing down). I did the sloping bit (it was a real hard dig towards the end,*whew* but never had trouble with
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00472.html (13,457 bytes)
- 7. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White, K4OJ)
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:45:00 -0800
- It is almost impossible at times to get a uniform downhill slope - especially if you are on a really flat lot like here in FL....an alternative is to make the tube crest in the middle - and the ends
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00474.html (15,152 bytes)
- 8. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: SPELUNK.SUENO@prodigy.net (EUGENE SMAR)
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 05:29:41 -0500
- TT: A suggestion: At the low point(s) in the conduit run, dig a small pit and fill it with gravel or, as I did, concrete chunks (left over from my tower project.) If you drill a couple of half-inch h
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00477.html (17,771 bytes)
- 9. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: n0tt1@juno.com (n0tt1@juno.com)
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:24:54 +0000
- That's worth doing. Another way is to fasten a string on the end of a "sized-to-fit" paper cup or a handmade cone, place this "paper slug" in one end of the pipe, then insert a shop vacuum hose in t
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00489.html (9,638 bytes)
- 10. [TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury (score: 1)
- Author: n0tt1@juno.com (n0tt1@juno.com)
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:40:11 +0000
- How true! I use plastic Tee connectors in the above ground end sections. The Tee points downward and is covered by a vent screen (the louvered kind available at Ace Hardware, et al). When the wind bl
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2002-01/msg00493.html (9,561 bytes)
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