[Elecraft] Cable X-Perts RG-8 vs Davis Bury Flex

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Hi Tom,

Have you found this coax to be 'critter eat proof' or did you put it into 
some type of pipe before burying?

73.
Geoff
GM4ESD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hammond" <n0ss at earthlink.net>
To: "J S" <jsacto at gmail.com>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Cable X-Perts RG-8 vs Davis Bury Flex


> Hi Jeff:
>
>>I've read that Davis Bury Flex is very good (low loss) coax. I have
>>Cable X-Perts RG-8 (50 feet of it) as my feedline right now.  Is it
>>worth my time and $ making a change to Davis Bury Flex or something
>>similar?
>
> Personal opinion follows... take it for what little it may be worth...
>
> The Davis RF Bury-Flex is just about equivalent to Belden 9913 low-loss 
> coax, BUT it's better in the respect that it can be directly BURIED for 
> long periods of time with little degradation in the polyethylene outer 
> covering.
>
> I use Bury-Flex exclusively between my Shack and the top of my tower, a 
> total of about 220' for each run.
>
> This having been said, and for only a 50-foot run, used on HF, I'd by 
> lying if I said that you'd notice ANY substantive benefit from switching 
> from what you now have to Bury-Flex.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Tom Hammond    N0SS