> After a few months the problem returned and the coax was found
> stripped away again. I set aside radio operating for a while and began
> watching my 6m tower for evidence of the guilty party. To my surprise, I
> found the culprit to be medium sized woodpecker birds. Two or three birds
> would hang upside down under the Yagi boom and very efficiently strip away
> at the coax until the damage was done.
> Terry K4RX
I have had that problem, except they were eating my shack! They pecked holes
in the wood siding and trimming. The only way I have even been able to
discourage them is to stuff aluminium foil in the hole they already made, and
they will abandon that hole but a few days later start another one. I'm sure
it isn't insects in the wood that attract them; the building is treated for
termites and the wood they chose to destroy is sound and solid, with no sign of
insect infestation.
I looked up on a couple of websites and it appears to be a common problem but
the only suggestions anyone was able to furnish was something impractical like
covering the entire building with netting.
Don k4kyv
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