[Premium-Rx] Keeping rodents off coax

[John Reed]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry O'Laughlin" <watkins-johnson at terryo.org>
To: <premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:34 PM
Subject: [Premium-Rx] Keeping rodents off coax


My solution for that problem is a Siberian Husky.  They love to hunt rats 
and anything else that moves.  I never have any problems with rats, possums, 
armadillos and even skunks.  They will attack skunks without any fear.  The 
after effects are not pleasant but the cables are fine.

John Reed


> 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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