On 3/3/2020 8:32 AM, dj7ww@t-online.de wrote:
LCF 4-50 is relatively cheap here, I pay 2.80 Euro per meter for LDF4-50 and
4,84 Euro/m for LCF78-50.
Yesterday, I picked up 100 ft of used LDF4-50 with three new connectors
for $125. I won't use it on 160M.
It can be buried
So can Davis RF Buryflex, a lot less expensive.
and is resistant again mice and bird bites, no chance to be
drown and it is very well shielded.
Those are good reasons for using it, especially the first.
In the California mountains, I have many long runs of LDF5-50, Commscope
2726K, and Commscope CATV RG6 laying on the ground for ten years with no
rodent damage. Hard line feeds HF and VHF antennas, 2726K feeds 160M TX
antennas, CATV RG6 feeds RX antennas. Some of those RG6 runs are 400 ft
long and have been there since 2006.
The RG6 I'm using for newer RX antennas is designed for direct burial,
and has a flooding "goop" that rodents don't like.
The older RG6 that's been there since 2006 is ordinary indoor RG6.
I recently had rodent damage to the control lines for my SteppIR where
it now runs under an enclosed deck, where rodents have probably moved
in. Until the deck was added, that cable was not enclosed, and had been
trouble-free since it was installed in 2009.
73, Jim K9YC
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