[TowerTalk] A dumb question

[Jim Brown]

Nearly all the cables for my antenna farm are laying on the ground, and 
in 11 years, have had only one issue, and that was with a long run of 
CATV RG6 that was buried to get around my garden and driveway. It lasted 
9 years. I have thousands of feet of various kinds of coax laying on the 
ground. I think it's all a matter of what kind of stuff the varmints 
where you live like to eat.  Someone recently posted useful information 
on which jacket materials they did and didn't eat.

73, Jim K9YC

On 8/29/2017 9:12 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> It is surprising that some people have no issues with cables laying on the
> ground. When I moved to NC and had just started to build my station. I
> temporary laid hundreds of feet of control cables and coax on the ground a
> week before for an upcoming contest. By the time the contest started I
> noticed that my rotator and remote coax switch were inoperative. I walked
> outside and discovered that the control cables were chewed up in multiple
> locations.