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Subject: [TowerTalk] 9913 Reliability
From: steve@oakcom.com (Steve Maki)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:33:15 -0500
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,
--
Steve K8LX

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