[Premium-Rx] Keeping rodents off coax

[Terry O'Laughlin]

OK, so you all think I'm nuts because I received 14,508 e-mails from John 
Reed today.  I'm encountering vermin problems in another area of my life as 
well.

Last summer I helped a retired fellow radio enthusiast in a rural area 
about 20 miles out of town by installing a log periodic on a short tower 
atop a ridge 400 feet from his house.  To keep the cost down we used RG-6 
as the feedline with a preamp at the antenna.

The system died two weeks ago and I traced it down to rodents chewing on 
the coax, which lies on the ground going through about 350 feet of woodland.

Does anyone know of anything I can simply wipe on the coax to keep the 
mischievous little jaws off the outer jacket?  I don't need to kill them, 
just make the coax as unpalatable as possible.

Terry O'

P.S.  My computer came up clean with AVG Antivirus, Spyware Blaster, Spybot 
and Ad-Aware, all with the latest definitions.  I don't know what happened 
to generate all the e-mails, but I know the statistics on the RA-6790 
oscillator quite well.


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