[TowerTalk] Buried conduit pull rope

[Thomas Noel]

Has anyone ever used the Muletape Quad Detectible as antenna wire?

Has 4 22 ga tinned copper insulated wires embedded, so much like electric control fencing but insulated. 4 parallel wires in a 1/2” tape with 1250# breaking strength with the 4 wires bonded seems like a strong lightweight self-supporting conductor for a long dipole or end-fed. Cheap at $80 for a 3000’ roll.

Polyester has excellent UV resistance. No idea what the abrasion resistance would be like, but it is designed to be tied in knots and to be dragged through ductwork and conduit.

Thomas W Noel
KF7RSF

> On Aug 28, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Jon <kd5sfa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> +1 on muletape !
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> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:17 Steve Maki <lists at oakcom.org> wrote:
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>> Muletape is the only thing to use. It's flat & slippery, does not tend
>> to twist, and won't burn thru your PVC corners. And cheap. And strong.
>> 
>> -Steve K8LX
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>> On 8/28/2017 1:03 PM, Steve K7AWB wrote:
>>> I am going to bury some heliax and coax cables in conduit and I'd
>>> like some advice on Pull ropes. I think I'll use two of them so that
>>> in the future I have redundancy since once these are buried for 200
>>> feet, it would be impossible to dig them up again. What do you
>>> suggest? By Pull ropes I mean both nonmetallic ropes and maybe
>>> metallic wire such as guy wire or something like that. Steve k7awb
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