[TowerTalk] Chipmunks

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

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73, Pete N4ZR

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On 1/13/2012 3:54 PM, Art Trampler wrote:
> ALVIN!!!!
>
> --- On Fri, 1/13/12, Bill Ogden<ogden at us.ibm.com>  wrote:
>
>
> From: Bill Ogden<ogden at us.ibm.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chipmunks
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, January 13, 2012, 9:52 AM
>
>
> Chipmunks got into my conduit (3" PVC) between my shack and my tower and
> did a job on cable insulation. They shorted several wires in the SteppIR
> control cable (blowing driver chips in the controller) and even ate bits of
> the SHIELD from several places in several coax cables.  (There were
> different types of coax, and the chipmunks worked on all of them. No one
> type, such as the direct burial cables, was immune.)
>
> I am replacing the controller cable and the main coax to my beam. I cut out
> the bad parts of other coax and spliced them (using proper plugs and the
> short barrel connectors) -- these are for 80/40 antennas and now check OK
> when measured going to a dummy load.
>
> I'll do a better job of blocking the ends of the conduit.
>
> QUESTION: Will moth balls in the conduit help? Will they harm the coax
> outer cover?  (Unfortunately, the neighborhood cats are too well fed ---
> they usually just watch the chipmunks.)
>
> Bill - W2WO
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