10-4, well about all thats left of it now is 2 splices I made out there....
Maybe I can splice a piece of coax on it out side here and show you how I used it...
Guys I think someone here or on one of the other forums said it was 75 ohm wire, it may have been I dont no how to check it to see...but this stuff, you maybe able to see it been used still yet in some areas...
It hang on the telephone poles and goes from pole to pole along the roads..
It has a black plastic cover on it with a guy wire running up the side....some times you wont see this steel guy wire because it maybe tied off somewhere, but thats what the steel wire is for, to tie it off and it keeps the tention off the splice, and if the black plastic cover is peeled off it, then you should look for the aluminum layer, it will be the next payer down....
But Ive got a piece out side that I was using and Ill splice a piece of coax on it to show you how I was using it....
I really have no idea how it works, but alot of the guys here uses this wire..we run it up the mountain, and we lay it on the ground, and as we make a splice we connect the center wires of each piece, I used a wire nut, and this is the hot as you know, and the outer aluminum cover is the ground side of it..and after you make this splice it looks like a up side down " V "...
They are other ways of doing it but alot of us does it this way, the stuff dont cost much and its easy.....only thing thats hard about it is, getting the aluminum housing off the wire you have to use heat to get it off, I use a butane torch, this is why in some of the pics the foam will run ....
But what you do, you cut the outer layer off which is the black plastic stuff, and the guy wire you just pull it back, you will need this later, but anyways, cut the plastic stuff back, so you will be looking at the aluminum cover, then take a tube cutter and cut what ever you need to off, then get a torch and heat this section up, once it gets hot, take a pair of pliers and pull this off....and once you do then you will see the insulated white foam, this protects the center wire..
Once you get the foam off the center wire is what you see next, this is a solid copper wire its about a 12ga wire..its has some of the white foam stuff still on it, and you have to get this stuff off to get a good connection...I used some fine sand paper to do this.....but once you clean it off, and then you take the 2 pieces and connect the center wires, just twist them together, then check the splice making sure it is a good conncetion, and put a wirenut on it, then connect the aluminum pieces togetrher...will look like a up side down V, and I used 2 water clamps to hold them together....and check to make sure it is good....
I used to use black tape on all this, but the tape seems to hold water, so this time I didnt use any tape, just smeared some diaelectric grease or silicone on it, on what was exposed to the weather, which after I used the wire nut it pretty much covered all the wire...and now this is where the guy wire comes into play, you just pull the 2 pieces of it coming off the 2 pieces you just spliced together and tie them together and I used a gurney clamp on mine or just wrapped/twisted them together.....actually if it was in a spot where the wire was been pulled or had tention on it I used a gurney clamp so it wouldnt come apart or not put tention on the splice in anyway.....
And at the antenna I used to just splice the coax to the wire, center wire to center and shield to shield.....and run a ground off the grd side and run it to a grd rod I had, at the top I used a 5ft grd rod...and at the shack, hook it up the same way, here I used a 5/8s solid grd rod, which was 8ft long, and drove 7'6" in the ground and I grd the wire to this, and used brass clamps...
This last time, I used the wire I must have had the perfect combination...
Because the swr was a 1.1 and less swr....on the lower end of the band which is channel 1 and below, the swr was running a 1.3 to a 1.5 swr......and on channel 20 it dropped out to a flat swr, it ran like this all the way up to 27.705, and as it hit the 28.000 band the swr would drop, in which I hold a Tech ticket and just talked on the 28.3250 area up to a 28.490 parts of the band and the swr was a 1.3 in this area of the band.....
I know its hard for you guys to understand this, or maybe you all dont see how this stuff works, be trust me it did work and I talked on it for 3 years....and this stuff cost me 70.00 bucks for 700ft of it, and it was used wire when I got it, and then I just had 4 splices in line, which the splices didnt seem to hurt anything....there was better ways of making the splices, but I choice to go this route, since I didnt own the land it was on, and I didnt want to make the perment splice...but thats pretty much it.......
