[TowerTalk] To Bury or Not to Bury

[Signal Hill Ranch]

Are you familiar with the NY-LA-BONE, the nylon chew toys for
dogs??  The coyotes around here think that coax and control cables
are chew toys.   The chew up surface cables into 6 inch lengths.

But burying them makes them accessible to the pocket gophers--
some little rodent that makes lots of tunnels and tends to use
the trenches for easy passage since the hard digging has already
been done.

You can't win--at least not on the prairies of CO!

Only leaves elevated cables or cables in conduits!

Good luck--John   W0UN


At 11:30 AM 1/21/2002 -0700, Bruce Makas wrote:


>My principle QTH is a rural area and there is no need for me to bury the
>feed lines and control lines for aesthetic reasons, but is there another
>reason? I have several one hundred foot runs and I was thinking, why not
>just leave them on top of the ground? If there is a concern about animals
>eating the cables (?) I can just have a run of PVC on top of the ground with
>the cables inside.
>
>Or is there a compelling reason to bury? RFI? Lightning protection?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Bruce, K1MY
>
>
>
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