Nearly all the cables for my antenna farm are laying on the ground, and
in 11 years, have had only one issue, and that was with a long run of
CATV RG6 that was buried to get around my garden and driveway. It lasted
9 years. I have thousands of feet of various kinds of coax laying on the
ground. I think it's all a matter of what kind of stuff the varmints
where you live like to eat. Someone recently posted useful information
on which jacket materials they did and didn't eat.
73, Jim K9YC
On 8/29/2017 9:12 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
It is surprising that some people have no issues with cables laying on the
ground. When I moved to NC and had just started to build my station. I
temporary laid hundreds of feet of control cables and coax on the ground a
week before for an upcoming contest. By the time the contest started I
noticed that my rotator and remote coax switch were inoperative. I walked
outside and discovered that the control cables were chewed up in multiple
locations.
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