[TowerTalk] Wire Rope

[jimlux]

On 9/9/20 3:04 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/9/2020 1:25 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
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>> I've had terrible experience with stranded copperweld. For at least 
>> ten years, my "go to" strong antenna wire is #8 bare copper from the 
>> big box 
> 
>> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> Everyone has trouble with stranded copperweld; instead you want to use 
> solid copperweld, as has been pointed out here already.
> 
> 73
> Rick N6RK

I'm sort of surprised they even sell stranded copperclad steel.. who 
uses such things?

single strand copperclad has been around for more than a century - miles 
of telephone wires on poles, for instance.

There's also ACSR cable for power transmission lines - but that's a 
stranded steel core (wire rope, really) with aluminum strands wrapped 
around it.