JB wrote:

I don't know if you have seen CATV hardline with a tank strapped to the
utility pole. That keeps water out by pressurizing the hardline. CATV
systems DO have problems with corrosion all the time. With all that cable
though, the cost to get it up and running is enormous, and they would rather
be complaint driven instead. They also use circulators so that the stuff
people do in their house doesn't feed back into the system and screw all the
other customers up.

Ever open up a cable amp that has had leaky (water type leaky) coax
dripping into it? Yikes, they usually keep working for a while, with all
kinds of electrolyzing going on. It's a pretty sad sight.


- 73 de Mike N3LI -