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Burying coax cable

The Howler

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I’ve been running overhead coax RG312 cable from my shop to where I have my Antenna mounted on my shed, 20’ away. To try to quiet my receive down from a noisy city environment, I started digging through the garden and found some abandoned 2” PCV irrigation pipe that I can feed through for alot of the distance.
Since I may run a different antenna with a rotor some day, would it be a good idea to run some rotor wire through the same conduit, or would that voltage possibly add noise to the receive? I will be running Times microwave LMR-400 Direct Bury cable for this instal.
Thanks for any feedback.
 
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As long as the shielding is intact on your coax, the rotor wire should not add noise through the same PVC pipe. I have a similar set up you described. The antenna is on my shed. I buried 2 inch PVC pipe and just run RG213 through it. There is a lot of room in the pipe to add other runs as I add other antennas. I was in a recording studio one time, in a DJs home, and 4 inch PVC pipe was how they ran cables from the control room to the studio.
 

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