[TowerTalk] 80-75M Inverted Vee or Dipole
Avila, Edward
EAvila@caiso.com
Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:00:25 -0700
Also, putting coax in a large enough conduit would allow you to pull it
"through" years from now and replace it with new cable without any digging
-- and, if the pipe is large enough with minimal bends pull additional
cables in the future...initially more work in the beginning, but less work
later on..........gud luck /k6sdw
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From: K7GCO@aol.com [mailto:K7GCO@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 1:53 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com; EAvila@caiso.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 80-75M Inverted Vee or Dipole
In a message dated 9/11/00 7:49:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
EAvila@caiso.com
writes:
<<
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 conduit -- 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
>>
In the past you must get coax that is desinged for burial. For example RG8U
would not last but RG8AU would last 20 years. The AU also had a
plastisizing
agent in the outer covering that didn't migrate to the center dialectric and
the outer covering would then crack without it--on purpose. What has been
done lately I'm not sure. A few more bucks for coax specifically designed
for burial would be a good investment to eliminate the bother of PVC pipe
although that is a good idea as cheap as it is. If I had coax designed for
burial I think I still put shrink on tubing over it even at it's expense. I
do at the top of the tower where it wraps around the mast--sometimes too
tight. k7gco
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