Gene,
The outer coating is polyethylene. The inner conductors are four tinned copper
and three tinned steel wires. Personally I wouldn’t waste time trying to split
the two conductors. I bought five mile spools from military surplus band much
was sold for KD9SV’s reversible Beverage antennas. Some was also used on my 160
vertical.
Craig Clark
K1QX
603-520-6577 cell
603-899-6103 home
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> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 18:25:41 -0500
> From: "Gene Smar" <ersmar@verizon.net>
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> Subject: Topband: Field telephone wire for radials
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> Gents:
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> I recently purchased a quantity - actually, a kilometer - of
> two-conductor telephone wire. I intend to use some/much of this wire to
> augment the half-dozen radial wires I now have surrounding my shunt-fed
> tower for 160M.
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> In your experience, would it be better to split the cable into two
> conductors (it's thin wire, maybe 22 AWG) and lay each in a slit in the
> grass separately, or should I keep the conductors intact, lay them as a
> single radial, then solder the wires together at the ends? I have plenty of
> wire to do either.
>
> Thanks for your advice.
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> 73 de
> Gene Smar AD3F
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