Topband: RX cables in woods

[Mike Waters]

You're right, the larger dia. PVC makes it worse sometimes. When it breaks
in two, it actually puts more shear on the coax inside.

I do have flooded F-6 running on the ground, along a fence feeding my
Beverages, where it's not likely that any vehicles can drive over it. And
it's withstood the horses that used to be here; not even their hooves that
pushed it into the earth seemed to hurt it any.

I put this one run of F-6 (to the inverted-L) in PVC conduit for several
reasons, one of which was to keep my neighbor's cows from biting it as they
graze. I just didn't think of what would happen when the ground under it
got muddy. It seemed like a good idea at the time. :-)

I have a 1000' spool of F-11 with a messenger wire. I'll likely replace the
stuff on the ground with it, about 15' high.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:

> But I'm not sure whether that would hold up here. Once in awhile, the power
>> company drives their heavy bucket trucks over my land. And people that I
>> hire to brush hog my 'pasture' have heavy tractors. That's what breaks my
>> PVC conduit lying on the ground, and damages the coax inside it.
>>
>
> I drive over skinnier coaxial cables all the time with my tractors and 4WD
> truck. Maybe the hard larger diameter PVC is making things worse, not
> better?
>
> The main reason I bury cables are animals, catching them with rotary
> cutters, and crushing the large diameter soft cables like Heliax.
>