Topband: Radial wire

[Artek Manuals]

  Bill

Arcing is probably not an issue at least for the 1st couple of years. I 
guess at some point 10 years down the road and your bargain wire is 
likely not UV resistant rated (?) Over time it will weather and crack ., 
running 1.5KW on FT8 you run the risk of setting the grass or leaf 
litter on fire eventually 8^)

At the 100W level your at now not much risk of arcing IMO.

Dave
NR1DX

On 11/6/2020 4:55 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband wrote:
> "For whatever weird reason, the price of insulated wire is
> nearly always lower than the equivalent bare wire.  And
> Romex sells for less than the equivalent individual wires."
> I agree.  I recently picked up a 5000 ft roll of insulated 20AWG for a little over $100 shipped.  Plenty enough to run 30 radials.
> I too woul dlike to know if you can cross insulated wires without soldering.  Planning on puttin up a 4 square for 80 at my new station in V31 and if you don't have to solder them it would be a great.
> Bill K4XS/KH7XS/V31XX
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