Speak Out: Keeping coax out of the way
A reader asks, "What's the best way you've found to keep your coax runs from getting in the path of the lawnmower?"
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N2VR on 2001-02-11
I use cheap 4" drain PVC pipe, buried so it's down about 4" below the surface so you can drive a lawn tractor over it. Think it's about $2 per 10'. Big enough for a lot more coax than I have running out to the tower. You don't need to use buriable coax, and if you have to dig it up you don't have to worry about slicing the coax. Only bummer is the digging, but you only have to do it once and it keeps you in shape ;) . Tip: Keep a rope or two pulled through so you can pull more cables through as your needs expand. When you pull another cable through, pull it through with another rope attached, which becomes the rope to pull the next cable through etc.
AD8K on 2001-02-11
You must be a new ham or a CBer. Any ham would have thrown the lawnmower away and now have extra time for DXing and drinking ice tea. Geeeesh! :-)
Anonymous on 2001-02-09
What's a lawn mower? Maybe you need to shift QTH hihi
PA3HBB on 2001-02-07
Hi,
My solution is to bury the cable in common garden hose -
It protects the cable from moisture and also from nasty lawn mower blades etc...
(and best of all - it is cheap!
Dave
Anonymous on 2001-02-06
In northern climates where it snows for five months of the year, I've had very good success placing small coax (including RG-213) across a lawn in the fall. By mowing season, the cable lies low enough in the grass that the mower doesn't catch it. In fact, midway through the mowing season, I'm hard pressed to even find cables that I laid the previous fall. For the bulk of my runs, though, I pass cables through 4-inch PVC DWV pipe (schedule 20) that's buried from the house to the edge of the woods. (The cables lie on the ground in the woods.) This allows easy access and makes it possible to run more cables when necessary.--Rus, K2UA
NS4T on 2001-02-06
Have a 140' buried run. Use water resistant (buriable) cable. Bury them in PVC runs. Loops at end keep rain out. Sealing with silicone and occassionally removing seal and blowing out with air helps keep condensate out. Check seals now and then until your comfortable changes in barametric pressure won't cause seals to slip. Since she can't see them the XYL is happy too.
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