Topband: Spam:************, Re: Deployable radials for 80/160M

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Wish we had a Lowes here in the VI but I will look and see if Home Depot 
has a solid wire equivalent. They have THHN is stranded but I am not 
sure about solid insulated #14 as i have not ever seen that.

Herb, KV4FZ




On 6/26/2014 8:17 AM, Dave Heil wrote:
> 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.
>
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