[TowerTalk] Military comm wire

Tom Osborne w7why1 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 13:25:44 EST 2017


The stuff we had back in the 60's was really kinky and hard to handle.
Worse than copperweld!  73
Tom W7WHY

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:09 AM, GARY HUBER <GLHuber at msn.com> wrote:

> If its tough plastic covered flexible twisted pair (WD-1), you should
> find seven wire strands. 3 - steel, 4 tinned copper
>
> see http://www.signalcenter.com/commo/wire/wireinfo/wdwireinfo.html
>
> 73 ES DX,
> Gary - AB9M
>
> On 1/23/2017 7:18 AM, Julio Peralta wrote:
> > I ran across a spool of military surplus comm wire. I believe it's copper
> > covered steel. Could this be used for radial wires. If I remember
> correctly
> > it might be a little difficult to deal with because it's not very
> flexible.
> >
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> > Julio, W4HY
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