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Old October 18th 08, 12:36 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Howard K0ACF Howard K0ACF is offline
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Default Locating underground conduit

Do you know anyone who works with phone lines..Run a wire in the pvc and
hook a toner to one end & with the reciever you will here it & find the
end....I have had to trace phone lines a few blocks long & underground also.
They do work....
"Ed" wrote in message
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I know this is slightly off topic, but since I am intending to run
some RF cable in the conduit, and since there are a lot of intelligent
hams on this group, I will proceed anyway:

Last year at the beginning of construction of a new house I buried
about 50 feet of 3/4" Sched. 40 PVD between the house and a location on
the property perimeter. Now that I am ready to use it, I can not
locate the perimeter end.... it is somewhere in about a 10' area, and the
end curves up to probably about a foot underground.

The ground is nearly pure sand, and is well landscaped now to the
point that I do not want to randomly dig it up.

The end terminated in an elbow curving up and is well duct taped
shut.

Can anyone suggest a method or equipment I might use to locate that
far end?

Tnx.

Ed K7AAT