Speaking of flooded coax... I noticed something recently about at least one of my spools of flooded quad-aluminum-shield "RG-6". Since the flooding compound is only in the outer shield (the braid right under the outer jacket), it seems possible that under certain circumstances, water could still wick its way along the inner shield and cause degradation of the inner braid and the foil surrounding the dielectric.
This could happen if water somehow entered the end of the coax, or damage (sharp rocks, animal teeth, etc.) to the jacket went all the way to the inner shield next to the dielectric. I'm thinking that the aluminum foil shields are plastic coated. If that's the case, then only the inner braid would oxidize. In this scenario, the coax would have one intact (outer) braid, and one oxidized (inner) braid, at least for some distance from where the water entered. Any thoughts on the consequences if this should occur? And is all quad-shield flooded coax manufactured with just the outer braid flooded? If I would have thought of this before, I might not have just laid 600' of coax on the ground next to a fence. But I haven't noticed anything wrong with the way that Beverage works (so far). 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
