You did better than I did. I cut mine completely in two with the lawn mower! At
least yours is still usable! I didn't feel stupid, or anything....
LJ
No, it's still not fixed. It _fed_ (past tense) a 12-element 2M yagi.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve <steve65@suddenlink.net>
>Sent: Sep 12, 2014 6:23 PM
>To: TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Nicked with lawn mower
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have some coax laying the grass whose luck ran out. Nicked it with the
>lawn mower. An oblong section of outer jacket about 2 inches in length
>sliced off. A few strands of the braid were cut, not very many though.
>
>It is cable TV drop cable, direct burial, 75 ohm, gas injected foamed
>polyethylene dielectric, 0.27in OD, quad shield - aluminum braid -
>60%/40%. Don't know what the 60%/40% means. I use it to connect a GPS
>antenna to my shop.
>
>My first instinct was to seal the nick and continue to use the cable
>until/unless it proves problematic. So I sealed the damaged area of the
>outer jacket with coax seal -- the black, sticky stuff that comes on a
>roll and everyone says not to use for weatherproofing connectors.
>
>Is coax seal an adequate method of sealing the damaged area?
>
>Would heat shrink be better? One end of the cable has an F-male
>connector over which I might get a piece of appropriately sized heat shrink.
>
>Or perhaps there is a better way I have not considered?
>
>Thanks all.
>
>Steve, K8JQ
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