Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Yee-Haw

["Jim Renfrew" <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure how I'll set this up.  It's 200 feet from the house, so a long coax 
run will be needed.  Not sure if any of the copper tubing will be visible 
above ground, probably not as it looks to be about 5 or six feet down.  I 
have to hire my own contractor to run a tube from the junction box to my 
house.  That will be in the spring sometime.  Step two will be to run coax 
under the driveway at that time.  Someone on this list suggested something 
other than coax.  I may try to squeeze four or six wires under the driveway 
so I can experiment.  Now that I see how easily this is done.

As for the coax under the road, I won't do anything with this until snow is 
on the ground.  The wire I connect will have to lie on the snow.  Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Durenberger" <Mark4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] Yee-Haw


> Terrific Jim!  Can you also use the new pipe for a ground?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Durenberger
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jim Renfrew" <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 1:36 PM
> To: <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
> America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <amdx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [NRC-AM] Yee-Haw
>
> > Jim Renfrew, Holley NY
> >
> > The construction crew ran a water pipe under my road today so I can hook
> > up
> > to county water.  Since the main water main was on the other side of the
> > road they used a air-pressured "torpedo" to push through a horizontal 
> > hole
> > for the copper tube to go through, about six feet down.  All it took was 
> > a
> > case of beer and they kindly tied a coax to the tube, so now I have the
> > ability to run a longwire on the other side of the road where there is
> > endless farm acreage.  They even hid it just at the edge of the tree line
> > so
> > the actual farm owner won't see it or be vulnerable to town lawn mowing. 
> > I
> > think this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.  I was glad to be home
> > today
> > to make this happen.
> >
> >
> >
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