[CS-FSLUG] Buried Coax Cable ID
Tim Young
Tim.Young at LightSys.org
Thu Aug 19 11:33:38 CDT 2010
Yup. From your description, I would guess it is an old satellite
TV wire.
The only other home-use coax I can think of would be connecting up a
ham-radio antenna, and those are usually mounted on the top of the
house for greater height. Unless there was a tree hovering over the
trailer, or the grounding was such that a ham-radio antenna wanted to
focus lightening on a mole-hole instead of the trailer, I would
expect the antenna over there. You may be able to dig up a
foundation for the satellite/antenna and get a better idea from that. :)
- Tim Young
On 8/19/2010 11:04 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:20:29 -0500, Tim Young
> <Tim.Young at lightsys.org> wrote:
>
>> I have never seen electrical wiring done that way, but it is
>> conceivable that was something like that. By your description of
>> the insides of the wire, I am assuming that you have already
>> chopped into it and did not lose power to your house, your
>> neighbor's house, or electrocute yourself...
>
> It's quite obviously coax. It was cut late in the afternoon, and no
> services have responded. The trailer park management has never
> heard of that size line being used. Where it cut it, the line
> appears to run from some place in the center of the yard. Consider,
> right next to this garden plot is another which has already been
> completely turned over shovel-blade depth, so unless it's deeper
> there, it can't have crossed that.
>
> The other end runs around back of the trailer, the master bedroom
> end. Our own cable service runs much thinner coax and it parallels
> the far side of our trailer.
>
> If nothing happens today, I'm going to dig up a bit more of it
> tomorrow, because it appears to run almost the length of the garden
> bed I'm digging. There is a phone junction box standing outside of
> the garden plot, but it's not in line with this cable. We were
> specifically told the utilities were too deep to be affected by
> this sort of garden digging. Puzzling, indeed.
>
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