[Premium-Rx] Keeping rodents off coax

[George Georgevits]

Terry,

You're kidding right? I've known rats to chew through concrete to get at
food, and you want to slow them down with a little paste??

George Georgevits
VK2KGG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org
> [mailto:premium-rx-bounces at ml.skirrow.org]On Behalf Of Terry O'Laughlin
> Sent: Friday, 20 January 2006 3:34 PM
> To: premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org
> Subject: [Premium-Rx] Keeping rodents off coax
>
>
> 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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