Bill, a good indicator of water damage is the color of the inner copper
surface of the shield. If the shield inner color is black, you can be certain
that losses will be high.
So, you might chop off pieces and inspect until you find nice shiny copper
showing. Once at that point, use of some test equipment will determine the
quality of the cable.
I have recovered lengths of Heliax that required removal of up to 10ft from
the ends and in all cases the remaining cable was just fine.
73,
Gerald K5GW
In a message dated 5/29/2013 10:48:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
bill.aa7xt@gmail.com writes:
I have some 1-5/8 inch Andrew Hardline (LDF7-50A) which has been stored
outside in New England for 5 years - is it still good and if not can it be
rehabilitated? I didn't expect to leave it outside this long (life
intervenes in ones plans from time to time) and am pondering whether its worth
the
effort to ship it 2000 miles to Colorado and reinstall at my new station.
This particular cable would be direct buried for use on HF primarily (I
have other cable for VHF).
73
Bill
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