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

From: (Chad=A0Wahls)
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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Heya Chad! If you are going to bury it, put the coax/cable inside pvc
tubing, seal the ends and forget about it.

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

"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.

"Psychiatrist to keyclowns" wrote in message
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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.

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

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.

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

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

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