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

[Bill Wichers]

You can get solid thhn. Some codes even require it, but it is much less common. I've seen Home Depot stock it before. Supply houses should definitely be able to get it. 

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On Jun 26, 2014, at 11:33 AM, "Herb Schoenbohm" <herbs at vitelcom.net> wrote:

> 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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> 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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