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 modern suff, I donot know. But if you have no animals that
would walk over you wires, then maybe the only problem might be puddling of
water.
Just somethoughts
Chris opr VE7HCB
At 11:30 AM 2002-01-21 -0700, Bruce Makas wrote:
>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 was thinking, why not
>just leave them on top of the ground? If there is a concern about animals
>eating the cables (?) I can just have a run of PVC on top of the ground with
>the cables inside.
>
>Or is there a compelling reason to bury? RFI? Lightning protection?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Bruce, K1MY
>
>
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