On 10/26/2017 1:06 PM, Jeff DePolo wrote:
With all this talk of water migration, I'm surprised there is no
mention of Trilpgy cable. They guarantee it against water migration!
They do not have a good superflexible product, however. It's even made
in USA. http://www.trilogycoax.com/ --73, Mike, WV2ZOW
Unless they've come out with something since then, last time we looked at
using or stocking Trilogy we decided not to as they only made smooth-wall
aluminum shield cables. As far as smooth-wall, we had enough headaches with
Commscope smooth-wall cables that I'm not looking to go back to using
anything smooth-wall. And having had problems with PIM and reduced
longevity with aluminum cables, including a fairly-recent failure that
required two 550 foot runs of 1-5/8" aluminum-shielded cable to be replaced,
we avoid aluminum and stick with copper.
By the way, Commscope has put an end to their smooth-wall cable line (FXL
series), having already discontinued most of the line and/or putting what
remains on EOL. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned.
Agreed on aluminum hardline (both smoothwall & corrugated), we had
nothing but trouble with it.
Just wanted to point out that Commscope's smoothwall line included not
only aluminum variants but all copper examples. In fact that's all I
have underground out to my towers. IMO it's the best underground cable
for direct burial, but I wouldn't use it for anything else, and dragging
it thru conduit would be very tough indeed.
-Steve Maki K8LX
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