[TowerTalk] Canada geese (solved, hopefully)

[Chuck Gooden]

Are they similar to the spikes sold by birdbgone.com?

Chuck K9LC


On 3/7/2018 10:54 AM, Mark N2QT via TowerTalk wrote:
> 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
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