The two big-box home improvement stores carry more expensive, heavy-duty garden hose, some with 5/8" and maybe 3/4" IDs. that might be used to protect a moderately long run of coax.
I have some galvanized steel "hardware cloth" (I think) with 1/2" squares that I use to cover some rain water drains, but a husky ground hog eats through that as if it were candy. Had to coat it liberally with a mixture of very fibrous wheel bearing grease (Valvoline) and a deadly serious hot sauce (Ghost Pepper sauce sold by the SC Trading Co., www.info<http://www.info>@sctrading.com). That's working so far. Still, my next-door neighbor, a police officer; has been promised a bounty of liquid holiday cheer if he wastes the S.O.B., that also ate all his tomato plants in September. 73, Charles, W2SH From: Topband <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Waters <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 4:18 PM To: Roger Parsons; topband Subject: Re: Topband: RBOG - wire fence Well, there's always animal repellent. I've used a woman's nylon stocking filled with sweepings off of my barber's floor; rabbit repellent spray; and my own scent. ;-) Having said that, I used those methods in ONE area, at the base of my 160m Inverted-L. That likely would be impractical along a long run of coax. This was discussed here in the past, and there were a lot of good ideas. Maybe some hams will chime in here with just the one you need. Running it inside tubing or conduit comes to mind. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com<http://www.w0btu.com> WØBTU's Radio Communication Technical Articles and File ...<http://www.w0btu.com/> www.w0btu.com Amateur radio technical information by Mike Waters, W0BTU. Mention promo code BTU20150907 when ordering residential models above and receive 10% discount or rebate. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Roger Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't think it is squirrels in my case - it always seems worse deep in the > bush where there are fewer of them and it only ever happens to coax lying > on the ground. Suspect mice or rats but I really don't know. I had one case > where I laid some coax out in the bush and by the time I had got back to > the shack it had been chewed right through! But I have many thousands of > feet of coax feeding lots of Beverages. > > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband Topband Archives - Contesting<http://www.contesting.com/_topband> www.contesting.com Topband Mailing List Archives. Search String: [How to search] Display: ... _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
