Cable Trenching
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Needed a drawing to figure out needed cables and connectors. Made this in PowerPoint, of all things!
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Trencher almost done with 300 foot long trench, which will contain 8 runs of hardline, 3 runs of three conductor direct bury ele
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Trench was about 3 feet deep. Trenching was done on December 16th, 2004, perhaps a day or two before the ground froze.
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The house end of the trench. Radio room is behind window to the left. Two 4 inch PVC pipes going into the house can be seen to
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Dick K0MN rolling out 4 inch drain tile that will be buried in trench.
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Trencher finishes up his work, while ground crew finishes rolling out hardline.
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My friend Gary from the phone company doing the trenching thing.
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Ron N9OY, Mark N9UNW and Bill KE9XQ roll out some 3/4 inch CATV 75 ohm hardline (donated by local cable company)
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View of front of the cable box, which is telephone company surplus. 4 inch PVC pipes that go into the closet near the radio room
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Side view of cable box. Radio room is behind window on left side.
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Back side of cable box. Have not backfilled yet.
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Cut the hardline & drain tile just so it fit. Still have to install connectors, lightning protection, etc.
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This is the box by the house, with feedlines and conduits from tower coming in. Poly Phaser lightning protectors are installed b
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Close-up of the hardline coming from the tower, then transitioning to PolyPhaser lightning protectors, then to RG8-equiv into th
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Mounted aluminum sheet to back of cabinet, then used aluminum channel (bent into L brackets and drilled) to mount the Polyphaser