Topband: critters eating my coax!

[Joe Subich, W8IK]

There are some wax-based pepper sprays available at organic gardening 
shops useful for spraying on foliage to prevent deer, squirrel, etc. 
from munching on the plants.  They are also useful for on ground 
cables.  

All mammals have an aversion to the "hot sauce" and the wax base will 
keep the stuff in place for several months even with regular rain (my 
wife's flower gardens need a treatment only every four to six months 
in spite of the daily use of the automatic sprinkler system).  Of 
course, the spray on stuff only works for exposed cables ... the buried 
ones will definitely require some kind of armor to protect them from 
the burrowing animals (rodents). 

73,
   ... Joe Subich, W8IK
       <W8IK@Subich.com>




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