[TowerTalk] Canada geese (solved, hopefully)

[Mark N2QT]

Ok, I’m pretty sure it was Canada geese that were the culprits.  I hooked up a trail cam
and have recorded foxes, cats, raccoons and deer ignoring the antenna and feedline.
It’s also recorded a score of geese going by the antenna grazing on whatever it is
they find in the mud.  While I’ve not recorded a goose chomping on the now armored 
coax and saying ouch, the stuff has survived a week without damage.

To armor the coax, I cut strips of hardware cloth about an inch wide. If you trim the 
edges, the wires can be bent so they stick up, like small barbed wire. This gives a strip
about a half inch wide with quarter inch ‘spikes’ sticking up on each edge. I tywrapped 
these strips around the plastic half loom that covers the coax. I have this on the 
exposed portion of the feedline before it goes underground.

Mark. N2QT