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

[MU 4CX250B]

The best price I could find for THHN stranded 14AWG wire was from an
ordinary local electrical supply house. I bought three 2500 ft spools
for about $90 each (for sixty 120 ft radials). Lowes and Home Depot
only carried shorter lengths and were substantially more expensive.
73,
Jim W8ZR



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> On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Herb Schoenbohm <herbs at vitelcom.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Herb, KV4FZ
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>> 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.
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>> 73,
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>> Dave K8MN
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>>> 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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