[TowerTalk] CommScope coax

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:21:10 -0500, Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:

>The stuff I've seen for sale locally is CommScope item #3227.

It's very good stuff, optimized for very low loss at UHF. NOT very 
flexible -- this is for permanent install where it won't move. Solid 
copper center (#10 if I recall correctly), braid plus foil shield, 
reasonably easy to handle, fits standard connectors. Commscope has 
the reputation of a very good cable company. 

The history of the batch for sale (a HUGE quantity) is that it was 
sold to internet bubble company that went belly up (Winstar, I 
think), so was sold at about a small fraction of its cost to various 
wholesalers. One of my friends bought a couple of dozen 1,000 ft 
spools, I bought two of them from him, sold one to three local hams. 
Have used several hundred feet so far to feed HF (20-10) and VHF 
(50, 144, and 440) antennas, a few patch cables, the rest is in my 
garage. 

You should be able to google to find a pdf data sheet. 


Jim Brown  K9YC