[TowerTalk] Dogs and coax - chew toy?

[K8RI]

On 9/11/2012 11:34 AM, Gene Smar wrote:
> Jeff:
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> If you decide to protect the cables, PVC conduit is cheap enough at home improvement centers. I suggest you buy sufficient quantities of whatever diameter you need to protect the cables and lay this stuff on the ground as a barrier for your cables. You don't even need to glue the couplers together, just friction fit the whole length. You might want to compare prices for one large diameter conduit vs several smaller diameters and couplers.
>

If it's just going to lay on the ground you might want to keep the 
conduit as small as possible. Large conduit makes a great home for all 
kinds of chewing critters.

As for fitting the sections together, I use Silicone Grease so they seat 
and I can get them apart. Normally conduit is sized so that it takes a 
bit of force to get sections to seat. After they've been seated for a 
while than can be very difficult to get apart when assembled dry.

I don't even glue the ones that go underground.

73

Roger (K8RI)

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> 73 de
> Gene Smar AD3F
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> On 09/11/12, john at kk9a.com wrote:
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> It probably will not last. When I moved to this QTH, I laid rotator cables
> and Heliax on the ground just for a contest. I tried the system a few days
> later and my rotator would not turn. I found that some critter had chewed
> though my new cables.
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> John KK9A
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> Subject:[TowerTalk] Dogs and coax - chew toy?
> From:"Jeff Blaine" <jeff at ac0c.com>
> Date:Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:13:42 -0500
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> I'm going to have to string some coax out on the ground on a temporary basis
> over the winter - and wondered if the neighborhood muts may consider that
> coax
> as a chew toy?
>
> Any experience there?
>
> 73/jeff/ac0c
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