[TowerTalk] 80-75M Inverted Vee or Dipole

[Avila, Edward]

I'm not a coax expert but in the electrical wiring world they make wire with
jackets designed for direct burial and as long as the jacket seal isn't
harmed will last a lot of years!!

Building code in my part of the world sez if the cable is not direct burial
it must be in conduct -- a bit more work to pull coax thru plastic pipe but
then should last the lifetime of the cable and pipe will protect coax must
better.......73

k6sdw

-----Original Message-----
From: GALE STEWARD [mailto:k3nd@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 7:31 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 80-75M Inverted Vee or Dipole



I've had some of the same (high quality) coax on the
ground (under the grass) for over 20 years.  It's
inspected and tested annually and is still in fine
shape.

73, Stew  K3ND



> *********No but unless you bury coax with a special
> jacket the ground 
> gremlins will get it and your investment is wasted. 
> Open wire line properly 
> installed will last past your lifetime, has less
> loss than any coax and at 
> the least initial cost.  I've actually used several
> thousand feet of coax.  
> The covering cracked or water got in it, got damaged
> beyond repair or the 
> loss increased excessively.  This represents a lot
> of money totally wasted.  
> My first open wire feedline didn't cost anything, is
> very easy to repair, 
> still has very low loss, can take 15 KW and I still
> have it.  Even some 
> contesters are using it.  K7GCO
> 


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