One reason to use RG6 for burying, is that it is a lot easier to bury across lawns, etc. You can push it into a notch (as opposed to a trench) and just step on it. It's out of sight, and undetectable after the next rain and lawn mowing.
73, Guy. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bill and Liz McHugh <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm surprised that many posters are using RG-6 for really long runs of cable > to RX antennas. I discovered about 4 years ago that the cable TV companies > no longer use hardline-everything in the cities has apparently gone fibre > optic. In many cases, the companies have reels and reels of both direct > burial flooded hardline and unjacketed Aluminflex or similar for overhead > runs. As there is no market for all this cable in my area, the only option > is recycling, and because it is not pure copper or pure aluminum the cable is > considered "dirty wire" and fetches something like $.20 per lb. > > I obtained a reel of each-1600 ft of flooded and 2200 ft of the other type. > At some 375 lbs per spool, the total cost was a bit more than buying 1000 ft > of good RG-6 and some connectors, and the loss is infinitely better. In > addition, critters don't try to chew on it and if something happens to break > the line a splice is easy to make. > > Connectors? What connectors? I mate the hardline with a short chunk of RG-6 > by soldering the centre conductors and using a SS cable clamp to attach the > shields. An upside-down plastic bottle is the weatherproofing (thank VE1ZZ > for these ideas). At 1.8 mhz there is no mismatch measureable nor is the > loss on my three 600 ft runs of any consequence. > > Bill VE3CSK/VE3NH > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
