One reason to use RG6 for burying, is that it is a lot easier to bury
across lawns, etc. You can push it into a notch (as opposed to a
trench) and just step on it. It's out of sight, and undetectable
after the next rain and lawn mowing.
73, Guy.
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bill and Liz McHugh <magoo@isp.ca> wrote:
> I'm surprised that many posters are using RG-6 for really long runs of cable
> to RX antennas. I discovered about 4 years ago that the cable TV companies
> no longer use hardline-everything in the cities has apparently gone fibre
> optic. In many cases, the companies have reels and reels of both direct
> burial flooded hardline and unjacketed Aluminflex or similar for overhead
> runs. As there is no market for all this cable in my area, the only option
> is recycling, and because it is not pure copper or pure aluminum the cable is
> considered "dirty wire" and fetches something like $.20 per lb.
>
> I obtained a reel of each-1600 ft of flooded and 2200 ft of the other type.
> At some 375 lbs per spool, the total cost was a bit more than buying 1000 ft
> of good RG-6 and some connectors, and the loss is infinitely better. In
> addition, critters don't try to chew on it and if something happens to break
> the line a splice is easy to make.
>
> Connectors? What connectors? I mate the hardline with a short chunk of RG-6
> by soldering the centre conductors and using a SS cable clamp to attach the
> shields. An upside-down plastic bottle is the weatherproofing (thank VE1ZZ
> for these ideas). At 1.8 mhz there is no mismatch measureable nor is the
> loss on my three 600 ft runs of any consequence.
>
> Bill VE3CSK/VE3NH
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