Glen K4KV wrote:
"I am looking for a source for ground radial wire.
The THHN at Lowes is a bit more than $0.09/ft for #14. Hoping to do
better than that. Saw a reel of #18 at hamfest, 2000' for $95, I guess
I should have bought it!"
In 1974 I paid $400 for 16,000 ft. of #12 bare softdrawn copper wire for my
radial system, at a time when the price of copper along with the economy in
general had taken a dip. That calculates out to 2.5 cents per foot. Compared
to other sources I was able to find at the time it seemed like a bargain price.
Using an online inflation calculator, in to-day's dollarettes, that same spool
of wire would have cost $1763, or 11 cents per foot. So 9 cents a foot for #14
isn't all that much more expensive than what I paid for mine over 30 years ago.
Although the price of copper recently took a big jump, when the the daily
erosion of the dollar's buying power is taken into account, it isn't all that
expensive. 2-3 years ago when copper was a third its current price, that's
when it was a bargain.
Don k4kyv
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