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

[Carl]

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 at miamioh.edu>
To: <Topband at 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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