[TowerTalk] Follow-up: Old Coax and cable questions

[Jim Brown]

Hi Bob,

Coax that has suffered mechanical damage like this should be replaced. 
It would be an ongoing problem. Your system sounds like a great 
application for hard line for at least that vulnerable part of the run 
to your antenna(s).

73, Jim K9YC

On 10/2/2025 4:43 AM, kq2m at kq2m.com wrote:
> Can I just tape over the cuts in the shield and call it a day (shiny 
> shield underneath as they were damaged with the past few days of no 
> rain, so no water ingress) or should I cut out the minimally damaged 
> section, put a PL259 on each end, solder and then use a PL258 to connect 
> them and then tape over that? (One disadvantage of that is to then 
> inadvertently create new potential sources of water ingress at each 
> connector as the cable expands/contracts from heat/moisture as well as 
> the occasional but rare connector failure)