[Elecraft] Now General RF Issue WAS 160m loop experiment a big failure

[n5ge at n5ge.com]

If you can see the board impressions in the coax, it's toast.  Replace it.

You didn't say what kind of coax it is, but 9913 is very easily crushed.
According to Mosley, the maker of many military antennas, that's why the
military doesn't use it on the ground or in the ground.  They use RG213, which
will not crush when run over by vehicles with tires.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:21:02 -0400 (EDT), goldtr8 at charter.net wrote:

[snip]
>Right now I am thinking that I have a bad coax line outside of the 
>house.  The reason for this is that I had a new propane tank installed 
>and they needed to back the truck up and had to drive over the buried 
>coax.  I did put boards down to spread out the load and protect the lawn 
>and also the coax.  However the problem has started since this incident.
>
>I pulled the coax out of the ground and it has bend marks at the edges 
>where the boards were which to means that it was deformed and maybe it 
>is now crushed.
>
[snip]

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
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