At 02:30 PM 11/20/2006, K8RI on TowerTalk wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chuck Sudds" <chuck@dxham.net>
>To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>
>While I was in the local (Omaha, NE) Home Depot the other day, I decided to
>price some of their wire. 500ft of #14 was $39.99 while RG-6/U was $.06 a
>
>You sure about that 6 cents a foot? It's usually a lot more than that. The
>cheapest I could find was a 500 foot roll for $63 (12 cents a foot) and the
>premium stuff was on special at $100 for 500 feet (Normally 142.96)
>Remember RG-6 is now mostly Aluminum except for the tiny little wire in the
>center.
>
>Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
>N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
>www.rogerhalstead.com (Use return address from home page)
>
>foot. Let's see...500ft X $.06 = $30.00 so using RG6 would be cheaper in
>this case.
>
>Chuck KØTVD
>http://www.cupies.com
>
Lots of online places quoting $60ish for a 1000ft
of RG-6. Granted you're not getting the super
quad shield drive a truck over it and it still
works. BUT, it's probably moderately rugged for burial..
About 10 years ago, I had a job where we needed
more than 50,000 ft of wire, and the kind didn't
matter. At that time, we found that thin speaker
zipcord was cheapest. I think it was 18ga, but don't remember for sure.
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