It must depend on your QTH. When I moved to North Carolina and put up a tower I ran the rotator cables and coax on the ground to the tower about 250' away to operate the Sweepstakes contest. This was done on the weekend before the contest. Later in the week I tested the system and the antennas would not turn. I discovered that my rotator cables were chewed in multiple locations.
John KK9A - W4AAA To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: RX cables in woods From: Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> Reply-to: j...@audiosystemsgroup.com On Sat,2/21/2015 4:34 PM, Greg Zenger wrote: Id love to hear any suggestions or insight on how to route 1000' of cable through the woods. Maybe I've just been lucky, but the long runs of plain vanilla Commscope coax laying on the ground in my woods from my Beverages are still fine after 7 years. The runs are about 250 ft each. Bobcat, mountain lions, and cayote are spotted around here pretty often, lots of deer, rats, and gophers, but the predators have gotten the squirrel population down to almost nothing. All my cable lay on the ground -- coax, rotator, SteppIR control line. It's a very temperate climate, but lots of rain during what the folks out here laughingly call winter. 73, Jim K9YC _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband