Thanks for all the suggestions.
First not sure it is geese but I have a trail camera to set up to confirm. The
damage
looks like someone took pliers and crushed and yanked on the coax until it comes
apart. I’m using busy rated comscope quad shielded coax so it takes some work to
do this much damage. The jacket does not show the sharp tooth damage like I’ve
seen with squirrels or would expect with muskrats or ground hogs.
The suggestions received fall into several categories.
1. Make it taste bad, usually with cayenne pepper or similar made into a paste.
Since
my stuff is exposed and the paste would wash off, and there are at least 70
geese to
train don’t think this is for me.
2. Noise makers, either wind driven clanging pots or similar or fireworks like
noise
makers. In my case I have neighbors, including a golf course that this
probably won’t
set well with. This does seem to work for other guys scaring buzzards off their
towers. A subcategory of this is “just shoot them”. There are a lot of them
and getting
a permit and dealing with the neighbors is an issue. Again due to the golf
course
someone would notice.
3. Armor the coax. Actually I thought I had this, as I put half inch split
loom over the
exposed coax, with buried flexible EMT for the rest of the runs. The critter
seems to
be able to pull the split loom off with ease, and the plastic isn’t all that
rugged. I think
what I’ll try is getting some heavy aluminum screening like hardware cloth and
wrapping
it over the split loom. This should be mouth unfriendly to most anything, while
still
providing some crush resistance.
I’ll update this when I get things connected back up with the trail cam in
place.
Mark. N2QT
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