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Direct burial cable
Does anyone make a direct burial 50 Ohm coax cable? or am I best off
burying non burial cable and replacing often? I'm going stealth with a Dipole. Chad |
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LMR 400 from Cable Experts.. A bit expensive, but worth it.
I think some of the LMR240's are also direct bury... check it out. cableexperts.com or somesuch. -SSB Chad Wahls wrote: Does anyone make a direct burial 50 Ohm coax cable? or am I best off burying non burial cable and replacing often? I'm going stealth with a Dipole. Chad |
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"Chad Wahls" wrote in message ...
Does anyone make a direct burial 50 Ohm coax cable? or am I best off burying non burial cable and replacing often? I'm going stealth with a Dipole. Chad Do it up right and good quality plain old coax will last 10 years at least. Good connections, waterproofing the connections, and running cable under eaves, etc. is the ticket. |
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"Psychiatrist to keyclowns" wrote in message m... "Chad Wahls" wrote in message ... Does anyone make a direct burial 50 Ohm coax cable? or am I best off burying non burial cable and replacing often? I'm going stealth with a Dipole. Chad Do it up right and good quality plain old coax will last 10 years at least. Good connections, waterproofing the connections, and running cable under eaves, etc. is the ticket. I would like to bury it as it will be leaving the radio room through a wall, then outside to a lightning arrestor. It will then travel under ground to an outbuilding where it will terminate to the connector that will run into the trees. Honestly with as much as I change my mind it probably won't be in use that long and a big-ol hunk of PVC will allow for future pulls and be cheap. Thanks all for the suggestions!!! Chad |
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Poor advice, Doug, or whomever you are...
Most coax will leach PVC's into the ground very quickly after burying. If PVC's come out of the outer jacket, microscopic holes are left in the outer insulation, allowing water to penetrate to the braid and leach up in both directions. This will ruin the coax within the year. If the coax isn't specified as "direct bury", don't bury it without sleeving it in PVC, copper, or iron pipe first. Like I said before, the LMR lines, specified for Direct Bury are great. They'll last a good while underground, and you get the benefit of better loss figures than most other coax. -SSB Psychiatrist to keyclowns wrote: "Chad Wahls" wrote in message ... Does anyone make a direct burial 50 Ohm coax cable? or am I best off burying non burial cable and replacing often? I'm going stealth with a Dipole. Chad Do it up right and good quality plain old coax will last 10 years at least. Good connections, waterproofing the connections, and running cable under eaves, etc. is the ticket. |
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sideband wrote:
Poor advice, Doug, or whomever you are... Most coax will leach PVC's into the ground very quickly after burying. If PVC's come out of the outer jacket, microscopic holes are left in the outer insulation, allowing water to penetrate to the braid and leach up in both directions. This will ruin the coax within the year. If the coax isn't specified as "direct bury", don't bury it without sleeving it in PVC, copper, or iron pipe first. Like I said before, the LMR lines, specified for Direct Bury are great. They'll last a good while underground, and you get the benefit of better loss figures than most other coax. -SSB You leave my Doug alone, he is under a lot of stress. Please quit picking on him. Kathy |
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Tell ya what, Kathy.. You tell him to quit spreading false
information, quit lambasting those in the newsgroup who have all the facts, and quit playing this silly game. When he does all of the above, I'll leave him alone, too. When he stops, I'll stop. -SSB Kathy Lee wrote: You leave my Doug alone, he is under a lot of stress. Please quit picking on him. Kathy |
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Kathy Lee is a felon.
sideband wrote: Tell ya what, Kathy.. You tell him to quit spreading false information, quit lambasting those in the newsgroup who have all the facts, and quit playing this silly game. When he does all of the above, I'll leave him alone, too. When he stops, I'll stop. -SSB Kathy Lee wrote: You leave my Doug alone, he is under a lot of stress. Please quit picking on him. Kathy |
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