Topband: Deployable radials for 80/160M

[Dave Heil]

That seems a little too much work when Lowe's sells 500 foot spools of 
insulated #14 for $45.

73,

Dave K8MN

On 6/24/2014 19 46, Herb Schoenbohm wrote:
> I found a great source for radial wire at home Depot where they have
> 100' rolls of 14-2 packaged for under $40.  Two conductors are insulated
> and one of course is not after the easy job of striping them across a
> bench jig or simple having a second person hold a pocket knife while you
> pull the conductors apart you end up with 300 feet of higher quality
> ground radial material. 2 each  100 foot insulated radials due to the VF
> are very close to 1/4 wave consideration and the the shorter 100 foot
> bare doesn't hurt either.  This of course brings up the issue of mixing
> bare and insulated wire in any ground system so I use the bare conductor
> for other 80 and 40 verticals.  Yet the sum of the three wires is
> cheaper than buying them individually it seems.