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 Sent from my iPad > > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 18:25:41 -0500 > From: "Gene Smar" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Topband: Field telephone wire for radials > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Gents: > > 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. > > 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. > > 73 de > Gene Smar AD3F > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Topband mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Topband Digest, Vol 215, Issue 1 > *************************************** > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
