clifto wrote:

wrote:
Robert11 asked:
Was wondering if one can consider the vinyl
coating on coax these days as being water and snow "proof" ?

It's good for a couple of years.

It depends on the environment, but in many cases sun and ozone can do a
lot more damage to the cable than snow and rain will.

There's also contamination of the foam inner insulator by plastic goop from
the outer jacket. If you can find non-contaminating coax, it will keep its
characteristics a whole lot longer.

Universal has it. The RG-8X, with black non contaminating jacket. I've been
using the stuff for buried runs for years. One installation up north has been
working well for at least 15 years.

http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/cable/coax.html

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:
clifto wrote:
There's also contamination of the foam inner insulator by plastic goop from
the outer jacket. If you can find non-contaminating coax, it will keep its
characteristics a whole lot longer.

Universal has it. The RG-8X, with black non contaminating jacket. I've been
using the stuff for buried runs for years. One installation up north has been
working well for at least 15 years.

Good catch! I see they also have RG-213. Just wish I could find RG-6 in a
noncontaminating jacket that wasn't a special order; I don't need five miles
of it.

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