[Antennas] Suggestions Hardline Feedline Run

[Frederick]

Hi
     They idea sounds workable. One thing you might try is putting in a 
piece of thick wall pipe between the planks and running your feed lines thru 
this. By doing this it would be a snap to pull the cables out if you decided 
to change any thing.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles E. Pitts" <cpitts at ec.rr.com>
To: <antennas at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:32 PM
Subject: [Antennas] Suggestions Hardline Feedline Run


Hello all K5OF, Ed,  here in NC, Recent new subscriber and past subscriber 
from few years ago.I relocated and I am in the process of building a new 
home and station here in NC. New station will require hard-line feedline run 
to go across 15ft to 20ft dirt/gravel roadway/driveway to shack. This 
roadway has electrical and telephone line feeds to my property and a 
easement right of way to other property owners on adjacent land right down 
the middle of said roadway.So burial is out of the question to cross roadway 
or running through pipe or culvert due to unknown depth of electrical or 
telephone and possible damage to mine or my neighbors feeds. (buried more 
than 30 years ago!)  Looking for any ideas other than what I propose here to 
get feedlines to shack. My idea was to place large landscape timbers similar 
to RR ties across road laying parallel to each other across road with a wide 
enough space to accommodate feedlines required and eventually covered with 
earth to form a sort of "speed bump" like effect for lack of better term and 
visual to get feedlines to the shack. Lining the trough between the timbers 
with sand and/or small rock for drainage and the feedline laid on top of the 
sand or rock eventually covered with earth. This would permit any 
maintenance or replacement of feedlines to be accomplished without a lot of 
effort. This area is the only area of all the feedline run where I have a 
problem. Feedlines will be laying on ground or supported slightly above 
ground through woods for the rest of the run approx. 300-400 ft of feedline 
run. Sorry for long post but I felt being as descriptive as possible might 
save for repeats or misunderstandings Any and all ideas would be 
appreciated. Thanks, Ed
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