Yes, after pulling the two wires apart you will have two nice coils of
wire with an attitude! I have used thousands of feet of WD1A for
reversible Beverages, control cables and even feed line for LF/MF
receiving antennas. I had a one mile spool that looked and supposedly
was new old stock. It is/was not flat parallel conductors, but actually
twisted pair with a low twist rate. That can make separating the two
wires interesting if you are doing a long piece.
The other caution I would add is seal the ends! If water gets into that
stuff it can be a disaster. The steel strands rust and then the rust
damages the tinned copper strands. Before long you have a high
resistance point in the wire where all of the strands are broken. I
spent way too many hours troubleshooting stuff before finally figuring
that one out. I'm not sure how far water will propagate inside the
insulation but I would definitely want to seal the end where a radial is
connected at the base of the vertical. I would probably seal both ends
for peace of mind.
73,
Paul
On 11/2/2020 9:08 AM, Roger Parsons via TowerTalk wrote:
Just one point about WD1/WD1A cable. I find it great for radials, but
splitting it can be harder than it seems. It lays beautifully flat as
a pair, but each individual wire seems to have a tight spiral on it,
and it's really hard to use. Of course, I may be doing something
wrong, but that's my experience.
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