> My manhole in the yard is in a low spot and has an open bottom with
> gravel. The conduits all slope down to it.
>
> Where they don't do that, like in the island to the building, I drilled
> drain holes in the pipe and set it on gravel. Other pipes are the same
> way, either open at a low spot or with drain holes in low spots. You can
> see I mostly cut a "hood" with an angle cut. I have to go back and finish
> a few like that, but in the mean time I don't seem to have any water
> problems. I also pull flooded cables, ones with goo inside, or use
> hardline. The 5/8th inch (50 ohm) hardline and the 50 ohm that looks like
> RG8 are flooded cables, but the rest are just normal heliax and are never
> a problem even when directly buried.
>
> 73 Tom
Thanks for the reply Tom. I'm using 7/8" Heliax (LDF5-50A). Is it
considered acceptable to direct bury that coax? I'll probably go with
conduit, but direct burial might be a reasonable alternative.
73,
Clay W7CE
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