[SixClub] Recommended Coax?

[Howard Bingham]

ATT uses Nitrogen to purge air from wire cables (That's becoming 
rarer these days though with use of fiber optic phone lines.).

My apartment complex is on OLD wires & every so often when there is a 
lot of static in the phone, a call to ATT (name your local phone 
provider here) will get the issue fixed, that's the purpose of 
nitrogen cylinders one occasionally see's on phone poles the end og a 
street with copper wire lines.

After Hurricane IKE crippled much of the Houston/Galveston area, the 
familiar dial tone was still heard on most hard-wire phone lines, as 
cell users ran around 2+ weeks later with dead batteries (In cases 
where they didn't have a cigarette lighter adapter to charge their 
phones & the local cell towers were fortunate enough to have a 
working generator).

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

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At 03:27 PM 6/16/2010, KB0NLY wrote:
>I second that conclusion....
>
>Condensation might cause a drip or to, but I haven't seen a condensation
>problem on this coax either.  Unless you putting on the connectors and
>sealing it up on a day with 100% humidity you shouldn't trap that much
>moisture in the coax to have it condense later on.
>
>I have heard of guys using an air compressor with an air dryer inline to get
>the driest air possible and blowing that through a length of 9913 until it
>was filled with dry air and then quickly installing the connectors while
>also working in a low humidity environment...  That's a bit extreme
>obviously but just pointing to what some have done.
>
>73,
>
>Scott
>
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>From: "Mike Pappas" <advanceddigital at mac.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:51 PM
>To: "World Wide Six Meter Club" <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [SixClub] Recommended Coax?
>
> > I would respectfully suggest that if "water poured out" you had a bigger
> > problem than condensation..
> >
> > Perhaps something wasn't sealed correctly...
> >
> >
> > Mike Pappas
> > W9CN
> > advanceddigital at mac.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 16, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Dave Rothermel wrote:
> >
> >> 9913 can get condensation in the spiral. Our radio club had an antenna
> >> problem. Saw a drip of water at the bottom tower connector. Cut the
> >> connector off and water poured out.
> >>                                    K9DVL
> >
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