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[TowerTalk] aluminium CATV hardline - cautionary tale(?)

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Subject: [TowerTalk] aluminium CATV hardline - cautionary tale(?)
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:34:54 -0400
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I just pulled up ~200 feet of CATV hardline that had been on the ground surface 
here for 10 years.  It did not look particularly bad, and was not lossy, but 
when I went to roll it up, attempting even a 4-foot diameter roll resulted in 
multiple breaks in the outer jacket.  It seems either to have become embrittled 
through exposure or perhaps even corroded down to a thickness too little to 
stand the stress.

73, Pete N4ZR
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