HFU HF Underground
Technical Topics => The RF Workbench => Topic started by: Treehouse SWL on February 13, 2022, 2314 UTC
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OK - simple technical question. After my puppy dug up my previous longwire feed line, I've buried a coaxial cable inside underground PVC pipe along the outside of my backyard fence. She can't get to it there. The feed into the single balun is wire, not coax, so I need a simple and somewhat weatherproof way to connect the wire and the coax to each other.
Any ideas? I'm a writer in my day job, not an engineer, so I need to keep it simple for my abilities!
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If you want to go on the "cheap", make the connection in a plastic box of some sort, sealing the holes where you ran the wire and coax into the box with a good sealant. For the actual wire connection between the wire and the coax what is now safe, use Gardner-Bender's liquid tape. A few coats would natually be better than one. Other options exist like using shrink tubing with diaelctric grease underneath as well. You may have better luck using a good coax to wire connector instead of directly wiring the connections...but...that is up to you.