[TowerTalk] Water in Coax

[Mike]

I'm using BuryFlex from Davis RF because of the tough, inert 
jacket(according to the literature). I haven't had it up long enough to 
tell anything about it yet. It has pretty much the same specs as LMR400.

I think any coax has the potential of pinholes in the jacket in 
manufacturing. Cracked jackets I would attribute to weathering.

73, Mike NF4L

Charlie Gallo wrote:
> On 11/25/2009 Roger (K8RI) wrote:
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>> A "pin hole" can be very difficult to find as can a cracked jacket at times.
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> This leads to the "dumb questions are the ones not asked" for me
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> I'm having a new tower/antenns etc installed this spring, and the installers usually use LMR-400.  I'm seriously thinking of installing heliax (or heliax flex)  instead, simply because I hear that it does NOT have problems with water/has a longer life (and the better signal does NOT hurt)
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> Thoughts from the list (10m to 40m - about 125ft, plus probably replace my 2m/70cm coax run at the same time, while the crew is here)
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