[UK-CONTEST] Fw: Antenna cables underground.

[Steve Knowles]

HI, John, Roger

Until three years ago my cables ran in the open, cleated to a fence.  Then 
we re-modelled the garden and they were declared an eyesore by the XYL!  I 
had such a terrible time installing the underground wiring for the koi pond, 
lighting etc, (all the problems others have mentioned happened to me too) 
that I gave up all ideas of burying the feeders, not least because there are 
3 x LDF4-50 cables, 2 x UR67, 1 x 15A armoured mains cable and a number of 
control wires.
I purchased 9' lengths of 3" x 2" rectangular plastic trunking from an 
electrical wholesaler and fixed that to the fenceposts.  The sections lock 
together with little inserts, which make it dead easy to do. The cables laid 
in it a treat.  After the lids were fitted I painted the whole thing brown 
to match the fence and it's pretty much invisible unless you know it's 
there.
Water doesn't collect in it, of course, and if I want to add another wire I 
just remove the lids, section by section, and lay the cable on the existing 
bundle.

Not quite as invisible as burying it, of course, but much easier

73

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Cooke" <g3ldi at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:34 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Antenna cables underground.


> Hi John.
>
>  My experience with this has been dire! If you only want to do the job 
> once
> and you have the amount of cables ready that you wish to feed through, 
> then
> that is fine. You can then feed ALL the cables simultaneously through one
> section of pipe at a time, join them up and then bury them all in one.
> It also depends on how far you wish to go, and how many bends you might 
> have.
>   My findings were based on just thinking it would be easy to feed a cable 
> through
> a 3 inch pipe, hauled through with a pull-rope, attaching another 
> pull-rope to the
> cable to enable me to pull the next one through etc. The run was long, 
> about 80ft
> from the tower to the house, with a bend at the bottom of the tower ( to 
> keep the
> water out ) and a bend where the pipe accessed the house. The first two 
> were fine, and then it got difficult. The pull-rope cork-screwed around 
> the cables that
> were already in the pipe, and by the time I had four cables installed that 
> was it,
> I could not pull any more through.
>  Since moving, I use a catenary wire and drop the cables from that as 
> support,
> much easier to do!
>  I suppose it would have been easier with an 18inch pipe!
>
>
> 73 de Roger, G3LDI
>
>
> Regards from Roger, G3LDI
> Swardeston, Norfolk.
>
>
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