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.