[TowerTalk] FW: RG6 coax question

[Jim Brown]

On Sun,3/13/2016 5:51 AM, Chuck Dietz wrote:
>   I am building a SAL-30 and was going to lay
> about 600-800 feet of hamfest RG-6 on the ground.  Now I ordered 1000' of
> Commscope direct burial RG-6 on Ebay for $80 and will go to Home Depot and rent a trencher for a day for $89.

YMMV. I installed two DXE reversible Beverages soon after I moved here 
in 2006, and the coax to both  is from a new reel I bought directly from 
Commscope before I moved here to run MATV signals around my Chicago 
home. It's good stuff, but not flooded, not intended for direct burial. 
That coax is laying on the ground, except for a stretch where it spans a 
deep gulley with a creek at the bottom of it. Those Beverages still work 
fine (except when a branch or tree falls on them and breaks the 
connection at either end). There's no way I could trench and bury most 
of that path -- it's through a dense forest.

73, Jim K9YC