[CS-FSLUG] Buried Coax Cable ID

[Tim Young]

  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.
>