[TowerTalk] burying cable

J. Bradshaw ac6tk@cybertime.net
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:19:03 -0800



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> From: Charles H. Harpole <harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
> To: Bill Long <wlong@wmdc.edu>
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] burying cable
> Date: Friday, February 06, 1998 1:44 PM
> 
> On the hose encased coax, when you "zipped it out of its self-buried
> trench,"  did water also zip out?  K4VUD

Dittos!

Why bother to hose your coax?   If it doesn't need armor, get direct burial
and be done with it!  Unless you provide drainage, air, or desiccant it
will get wet.

Jim Bradshaw, ac6tk


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