Best Coax?

[jazzsinger]

You are aware that the center conductor is copper coated aluminum?
- 'Doc

What difference does that make, RF only penetrates microns into the surface area anyway, due to the skin effect, vould have liquorice inside the cable and wouldn't make the slightest difference! Plus aluminium is almost as good a cunductor as copper is, I fail to see the point your making. Many cables have steel centre copper coated conductors, don't mean its a bad cable As long as copper coating is high quality ofc and deep enough to overcome skin effect, it will be the same performance at RF frequencies as a solid copper cable.

Its the reason the gainmaster and T2LT dipoles work so well as they utilise the skin effect.

 

[W5LZ]

Read post #73.
- 'Doc

 

[jazzsinger]

Read post #73.
- 'Doc

I did and as was pointed out by sdmahr what difference would it make, even aluminium coated in 99.99%% copper woud be better than copper of a lower percentage like you find in many snidey Chinese cables, as almost all of the RF travels on the surface where the copper is it will probably be better quality even though post 73 was a tad innacurate,

many armoured cables are steel coated in copper, steel gives strength, copper conductivity, don't mean they are any less efficient if done properly. Slightly higher risk of oxidation/degradation, but that wouldn't be the case if you weatherseal the plug anyway, would only be an issue for a cowboy install.