Can I get a few recommendations on where to purchase direct burial type = cable (polyethylene jacket) for the following?: 1. Telephone line 2. Rotor cable 3. CAT5 network cable (shielded) thanks, Dav
Put it in PVC conduit... Inevitably, you're going to want to change the cable, or pull another one, etc. 3/4" PVC electrical conduit is cheap and easy to install.. You have to dig the trench anyway..
I certainly concur with Jim ... and, while you are at it ... run some spare "fish lines" too .. and use conduit large enough to allow easy replacement through the years, and I suggest plugging the en
I put mine in 4" PVC and I can easily pull several coax cables, power cord for the tower winches, and rotor control cable, etc. Real happy I did this. ________________________________________________
Certainly good advice, but on the plugging of the ends, I'd recommend a wad of fiberglass window screen material instead. That allows the conduit to breathe, because no matter what, it WILL have wate
Dave K0QE (the originator of this thread): I concur with everyone's recommendation on the PVC conduit, but make it bigger than you think you'll need initially. Being hams, we inevitably WILL change s
Hmmm .. Gene .. errrr--where is your suggestion on the type of cable to use? Or ... did you get sidetracked, as some others of us did, getting enthralled with the PVC conduit idear? I was responding
Author: Jim White" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:21:33 -0400
If you can make the underground run of the conduit such that the low spot is at each end of the run - and it is at the hgihest altitude in the middle any large amounts of conensation will tend to mov
TT: Sorry for the confusing posting. To clear things up - my response, directed at K0QE's original posting, was to agree with Jerry's and Mark's recommendations to use PVC conduit, rather than hard-t
Yep, conduit drains are good if there are "low points". Best is either a tower slightly uphill or downhill from the shack to allow end-to-end drainage (I'm lucky, mine is uphill), or if it's level gr
Many installations are unique. I had about a 600 ft run, and despite much trying, I couldn't find any free CATV hardline. I had to spring for some LMR600DB. Over the run, I had to cross a small strea
Has anyone used 4" black drainage pipe for running coax,rotor cable ect.? A 100' roll cost $20 which is cheap and flexible.It comes with holes on the bottom for drainage or solid form. I thought it m
You can just use twice the length needed to do the pull and then you can't forget...the rope never leaves the conduit. Attach the cable to be pulled to a loop in the middle of the pull rope. -- 73 e
Yep. Works for me. I used the holes in the bottom version. -- 73 es God Bless de KK1L...ron rossi(kk1l@arrl.net) <>< QTH: Jericho, Vermont My page: http://www.qsl.net/kk1l
I use that 1/4"-3/8" yellow poly rope.. I'd also not be skimpy on the size of the conduit. The cost difference between 1" and 3/4" isn't all that much, and every bit of extra room makes life easier.
John, This kind of pipe is usually corrugated .. it holds water inside, despite the 'drainage holes'. It's designed to take water IN and move it. Despite all the comments to put the cables in PVC ..
Author: Bill Otten" <res0958z@verizon.net (Bill Otten)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:36:50 -0400
Yeah, it's in the archives somewhere. The suggestion is to also use the cloth 'sleeve' that unrolls over that corrugate tubing to keep the critters and dirt from getting in. Bill KC9CS A