RG6 Quad Shield Direct Burial Cable - 18 AWG CCS, Outdoor Rated, 1000ft Black

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This is RG6 for the run that goes into the ground: a trench from the dish or antenna mast to the house, a feed between two buildings, or a cable drop that has to cross a yard without a pole. The polyethylene jacket is the difference. Unlike the PVC on an indoor or aerial RG6, PE is rated for direct burial without conduit: it doesn't absorb water, it shrugs off the acids and alkalis in soil, and it's UV stabilized for the stretch that runs above ground at each end. Underneath is quad-shield RG6: an 18 AWG copper-clad steel center conductor in foam polyethylene, two bonded aluminum foils and two aluminum braids at 60% and 40% coverage, rated to 3 GHz for cable TV, satellite, and broadband, with the extra shielding that a buried run alongside a power feed or a long open-country span benefits from.

It comes on a 1000 ft wooden spool, in black.

Features

• Direct burial polyethylene jacket. Water-resistant, soil-resistant, and UV stabilized, so it goes straight into a trench without conduit and survives the exposed ends.
• Quad shield. Bonded aluminum foil, 60% aluminum braid, a second aluminum foil, and a 40% aluminum braid, for buried runs that share a trench with power or cross open ground.
• 18 AWG copper-clad steel center conductor. The standard RG6 conductor for RF drops: the steel core adds pull strength and the copper skin carries the signal.
• 75 Ω, rated to 3 GHz. Covers cable TV and DOCSIS to 1.2 GHz, satellite IF to 2.15 GHz, and MoCA to 1.675 GHz.
• Foam polyethylene dielectric. Low loss and stable impedance from -30 °C to 60 °C, which covers frozen ground and a sun-baked trench.
• 110 lb pulling tension. Enough margin for a pull through buried conduit where one is used.
• 1000 ft wooden spool, black. Put it on a spool stand and it pays out cleanly.

Where It Fits

It suits buried satellite dish and antenna feeds from a mast or pad to the building, underground CATV and broadband drops between structures, cable runs across a yard, driveway, or parking lot where an aerial span isn't an option, outbuilding, barn, and detached garage feeds, campground, RV park, and marina distribution, buried CCTV and HD-over-coax camera runs to a gate or perimeter post, and any outdoor coax run that spends part of its life underground and part in the sun.

Good to Know

Bury it below the frost line where there is one, and deep enough to clear a shovel or a tiller; 18 inches is a common depth, and a run of sand or a warning tape above it is cheap insurance. Where the cable enters the building, bond the shield to the electrical service ground through a grounding block, as the NEC requires for anything coming in from outside, and leave a drip loop so water runs off before the entry point. The polyethylene jacket has no indoor flame rating, so the NEC limits it to about 50 feet inside the building from the point of entry; past that, splice to a CMR or CMP RG6. Quad shield is thicker than dual shield, so it needs quad-shield compression F connectors, and outdoor connectors should be the weather-sealed type with a rubber O-ring, wrapped or booted at any exposed joint. Copper-clad steel is fine for RF and for the low DC currents of a satellite LNB, but a long buried run that powers an amplifier is better served by a solid-copper RG6. Keep the pulling tension under 110 lb and don't kink it going into the trench; a kinked foil shield doesn't recover. For a span that can go overhead instead of underground, the messenger cable carries its own weight between two anchor points.

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