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1. Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: K1ZM@aol.com; Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:31:16 EDT; I wonder if anyone on the reflector knows of a remedy that will stop squirrels from eating the black jacket from Rg213 coax? They seem to love the stuff and eat hundreds of feet of the black PVC jack; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00024.html (7,324 bytes)
2. Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>; Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 07:40:52 -0400; Jeff and all, Lots of info on this in the archives...on Google try searching site:dayton.akorn.net critter Here's a good summary post by N8UG (aka The Wireman): http://dayton.akorn.net/pipermail/towe; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00025.html (6,939 bytes)
3. Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: "Fred Cresce" <fcresce@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:54:25 -0400; Hello fellow 160 guys, The band is showing some life after a very noisy Summer. I have a wooded lot and the squirrels aren't bothering any of my stuff. I have lots of RG-213 out there and no nibbles,; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00026.html (7,142 bytes)
4. Re: Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: "Doug Waller" <NX4D@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 09:23:09 -0400; jelly Squirrels hate the taste of coax! But they are apparently driven by nature to intake compounds missing in their diet. After rains I have noticed the squirrels licking my coax, and the treated; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00027.html (8,171 bytes)
5. Re: Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:12:54 +0000; I wonder if anyone on the reflector knows of a remedy that will stop squirrels from eating the black jacket from Rg213 coax? I have had the same problem with critters (probably rodents) eating the ja; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00029.html (7,462 bytes)
6. Re: Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: "VA3XRZ [Q]" <va3xrz@qsl.net>; Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:58:34 -0400; Same here, I have tons of coax and wildlife running around the backyard and never had any problem with squirrels or chipmunks damaging anything but my wife keeps a couple of plates on the deck full o; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00030.html (8,793 bytes)
7. RE: Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>; Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:30:12 -0700; Jeff: At least one of the wire and cable vendors selling to the ham community claims that polyethylene jackets are less attractive to critters than PVC jackets. I bought and installed some polyethyle; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00031.html (9,103 bytes)
8. Re: Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: Joe Reisert <W1JR@arrl.net>; Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 15:39:53 -0400; Hi Jeff, Same problem here except it's mostly chipmunks and they can only eat completely the small diameter coax. They even ate though my RG141 teflon coax! What I did is to put EMT (from the hardwar; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00032.html (9,211 bytes)
9. Re: Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: "Tom A" <althoff@verizon.net>; Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:04:18 -0400; Hmmm...we do the same thing here in Greenwood Lake, NY. My both my runs of 213 for the 80/160 dipoles lay on the ground along side the pile of black oil sunflower seeds we feed to our Cardinals (and; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00036.html (8,898 bytes)
10. Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: K1ZM@aol.com; Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:49:28 EDT; Thanks to all those who took the time to provide assistance. My assessment of possible solutions would seem to be these: 1) Best - use 50 ohm hardline - (a bit pricey - but AA1K and others say it wor; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00047.html (8,900 bytes)
11. Re: Topband: Critters Eating Coax (score: 1): Author: Keith Jillings <keithj@dsl.pipex.com>; Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:46:15 +0100; K1ZM@aol.com wrote: So, I will probably go the PVC conduit route - it is EASY to pass RG213 through it as long as the PL259's are off the cable and the various sections can either be taped or PVC glu; /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00050.html (9,214 bytes)

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