[Heathkit] burying coax

[Ronnie Hull]

I've used garden hose and will NEVER again. It WILL rot in the ground plus a gopher will go through it like it's hot butter.
Bite the bullet and use PVC
And forget keeping moisture out. It's good to seal the couplings and all that but you can't prevent condensation so use PVC and the best quality coax and you can. 
W5SUM 

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> On Jun 20, 2017, at 3:27 PM, greenacres113 at charter.net wrote:
> 
> I use plain PVC. 3/4'' or 1'' will allow coax connector too. I slide
> the PVC on as I go. Gluing is easy. 
> Where the PVC comes up & if there is a low spot I drill several 1/8''
> weep holes on the bottom of the PVC for moisture drain.
> Got 1000+ ft. of coax & rotor cable buried. We have a Mole & Vol
> problem & the garden hose is too easy to chew thru.
> I have a driveway edger & use it to cut two slots abt. 2'' apart then
> put the dirt back over the slot. Here in Tn within a month you can't
> tell where the soil was cut.
> 
> K9IL
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