Topband: RX cables in woods

[john at kk9a.com]

It must depend on your QTH.  When I moved to North Carolina and put up a
tower I ran the rotator cables and coax on the ground to the tower about
250' away to operate the Sweepstakes contest.  This was done on the weekend
before the contest. Later in the week I tested the system and the antennas
would not turn. I discovered that my rotator cables were chewed in multiple
locations.

John KK9A - W4AAA



To:	topband at contesting.com
Subject:	Re: Topband: RX cables in woods
From:	Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to:	jim at audiosystemsgroup.com

On Sat,2/21/2015 4:34 PM, Greg Zenger wrote:
Id love to hear any suggestions or insight on how to route 1000' of cable
through the woods.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but the long runs of plain vanilla Commscope
coax laying on the ground in my woods from my Beverages are still fine after
7 years. The runs are about 250 ft each. Bobcat, mountain lions, and cayote
are spotted around here pretty often, lots of deer, rats, and gophers, but
the predators have gotten the squirrel population down to almost nothing.
All my cable lay on the ground -- coax, rotator, SteppIR control line. It's
a very temperate climate, but lots of rain during what the folks out here
laughingly call winter.

73, Jim K9YC