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Wow, sorry guys I didnt mean to open a can of worms...

Yea, Im running what used to be the old style TV line, stuff you can maybe still see in some areas on telephone poles....some of this stuff that is on the poles, you will see the aluminum part showing..
This wire is a coax forum, NOT ladder line...it does work guys..
Ive heard guys call this stuff, pole to pole wire, hardline wire..

A friend of mine got a bunch of this stuff when this cable was replaced with the new stuff, in which my friend sold me this stuff, I bought little more than 700ft of it for 70.00 bucks.. 3 years ago..and my friend, he runs 2000ft on it his self..not sure how many splices he had but he got the connectors..

Heres what it looks like: it has a black plastic/rubber outer cover and theres also a steel guy wire that runs along the inside of this outer cover also....
Next layer, have a aluminum cover, then you have some white insulation made of like foam/rubber, then the center wire which is solid and it is copper...the stuff Im using is 1/2" stuff..and I have 625ft of it now..
Been running this stuff about 3 years now and it does work, have talked alot of DX on it....anyone who Ive talked with in dx, this is what I was running when we talked....they can tell yea if it works or not..

But at the present, Ive been talking alot of dx on ssb, which I do stay on 38lsb when dx is rolling in...been talking with just the radio, since my box is down...I also talk sometimes on the 10m band..

Im sure from what Ive been reading some of you all think this is BS or a lie, well no lies here its the truth...im sure there is better ways of making the splices in this line, but I have used the wire nuts and used water clamps to connect the ground side of the wire....Im not the only one who fixed my line this way, most people in my area who runs this stuff has there spliced the same way, and they all talk great...these guys are into talking local, but me, well Im into talking DX....

The reason for the long run of wire, where I live I have power lines running through the back yard, have a transformer on the hill side of me and some other lines running through the front yard...but I have a mountain on the other side of me, so I run this line back on the mountain...the antenna isnt on the top it sets on a ridge...

<blockquote data-quote="Oatmeal" data-source="post: 358153" data-attributes="member: 9247">Wow, sorry guys I didnt mean to open a can of worms...Yea, Im running what used to be the old style TV line, stuff you can maybe still see in some areas on telephone poles....some of this stuff that is on the poles, you will see the aluminum part showing..This wire is a coax forum, NOT ladder line...it does work guys..Ive heard guys call this stuff, pole to pole wire, hardline wire..A friend of mine got a bunch of this stuff when this cable was replaced with the new stuff, in which my friend sold me this stuff, I bought little more than 700ft of it for 70.00 bucks.. 3 years ago..and my friend, he runs 2000ft on it his self..not sure how many splices he had but he got the connectors..Heres what it looks like: it has a black plastic/rubber outer cover and theres also a steel guy wire that runs along the inside of this outer cover also....Next layer, have a aluminum cover, then you have some white insulation made of like foam/rubber, then the center wire which is solid and it is copper...the stuff Im using is 1/2&quot; stuff..and I have 625ft of it now..Been running this stuff about 3 years now and it does work, have talked alot of DX on it....anyone who Ive talked with in dx, this is what I was running when we talked....they can tell yea if it works or not..But at the present, Ive been talking alot of dx on ssb, which I do stay on 38lsb when dx is rolling in...been talking with just the radio, since my box is down...I also talk sometimes on the 10m band..Im sure from what Ive been reading some of you all think this is BS or a lie, well no lies here its the truth...im sure there is better ways of making the splices in this line, but I have used the wire nuts and used water clamps to connect the ground side of the wire....Im not the only one who fixed my line this way, most people in my area who runs this stuff has there spliced the same way, and they all talk great...these guys are into talking local, but me, well Im into talking DX....The reason for the long run of wire, where I live I have power lines running through the back yard, have a transformer on the hill side of me and some other lines running through the front yard...but I have a mountain on the other side of me, so I run this line back on the mountain...the antenna isnt on the top it sets on a ridge...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oatmeal, post: 358153, member: 9247"] Wow, sorry guys I didnt mean to open a can of worms... Yea, Im running what used to be the old style TV line, stuff you can maybe still see in some areas on telephone poles....some of this stuff that is on the poles, you will see the aluminum part showing.. This wire is a coax forum, NOT ladder line...it does work guys.. Ive heard guys call this stuff, pole to pole wire, hardline wire.. A friend of mine got a bunch of this stuff when this cable was replaced with the new stuff, in which my friend sold me this stuff, I bought little more than 700ft of it for 70.00 bucks.. 3 years ago..and my friend, he runs 2000ft on it his self..not sure how many splices he had but he got the connectors.. Heres what it looks like: it has a black plastic/rubber outer cover and theres also a steel guy wire that runs along the inside of this outer cover also.... Next layer, have a aluminum cover, then you have some white insulation made of like foam/rubber, then the center wire which is solid and it is copper...the stuff Im using is 1/2" stuff..and I have 625ft of it now.. Been running this stuff about 3 years now and it does work, have talked alot of DX on it....anyone who Ive talked with in dx, this is what I was running when we talked....they can tell yea if it works or not.. But at the present, Ive been talking alot of dx on ssb, which I do stay on 38lsb when dx is rolling in...been talking with just the radio, since my box is down...I also talk sometimes on the 10m band.. Im sure from what Ive been reading some of you all think this is BS or a lie, well no lies here its the truth...im sure there is better ways of making the splices in this line, but I have used the wire nuts and used water clamps to connect the ground side of the wire....Im not the only one who fixed my line this way, most people in my area who runs this stuff has there spliced the same way, and they all talk great...these guys are into talking local, but me, well Im into talking DX.... The reason for the long run of wire, where I live I have power lines running through the back yard, have a transformer on the hill side of me and some other lines running through the front yard...but I have a mountain on the other side of me, so I run this line back on the mountain...the antenna isnt on the top it sets on a ridge... [/QUOTE]

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