[TowerTalk] aluminium CATV hardline - cautionary tale(?)

[Pete Smith]

I just pulled up ~200 feet of CATV hardline that had been on the ground surface here for 10 years.  It did not look particularly bad, and was not lossy, but when I went to roll it up, attempting even a 4-foot diameter roll resulted in multiple breaks in the outer jacket.  It seems either to have become embrittled through exposure or perhaps even corroded down to a thickness too little to stand the stress.

73, Pete N4ZR
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