[TowerTalk] Buried HF/VHF feedlines

[Jim Brown]

On 7/24/2020 11:17 PM, Jonathan - KE0YBL via TowerTalk wrote:
> Herein lies the rub -- my climber's experience has been (and probably yours as well) that directly burying this in our frozen tundra eventually results in crushed cable through thawing and freezing.

I don't have the cold weather issues here in coastal California, and 
there's no human activity where cables run from my shack to my two 
towers, so all cables, both hard line and control lines, are laying on 
the ground. Same for flooded coax from RX antennas. Neighbor K6XX, with 
a station much larger than mine, has done the same for twice as many 
years. One of his runs is ~750 ft, and is larger hard line. Control line 
for the rotator for my most distant tower is indoor AC cable, spliced at 
the tower base to something much smaller that goes up the tower.

In ten years, the only issue I've had was a year ago, when varmints 
chewed a control cable for my SteppIR. That happened after that cable 
was re-routed under a newly built deck, where rabbits promptly moved in.

73, Jim K9YC