This area still has a huge amount of electronics related industry. BAE and
Raytheon included.
When a military contract has been shipped the left overs get scrapped unlike
a small commercial or research outfit where nothing is wasted.
We also have a fair amount of business failures which adds to the surplus
market.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Garland" <4cx250b@miamioh.edu>
To: <Topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 4:54 PM
Subject: Topband: , Re: Deployable radials for 80/160M
Here in sunny NM, with nothing resembling grass, I just laid my sixty 120
ft
radials on the top of the desert. It's stranded 14 AWG with a brown THHN
insulation that matches the dirt. I figure in a couple of years the
insulation will pretty much be gone, and then it will just be bare copper.
Ain't nobody going to be bothered by that except the coyotes. The antenna
is 750 ft from my station, and fed with (buried) 50 ohm 1/2 inch CATV
hardline.
Don't know how Carl finds that cheap PTFE stranded wire. I wire all my
homebrew projects with it, and am always on the lookout, but never see any
at the local surplus places. Los Alamos National Labs is nearby but never
seems to have any. I'm guessing they must use something else to wire up
nuclear weapons.
73,
Jim W8ZR
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