> Wait a minute Jeff... what about that crappy low cost silver jacket 
> Super-flex Columbia branded coax I bought back in the 70's during 
> the CB boom...  

Coax leakage is different than currents flowing on the shield though...

I remember having some RG8 from Radio Shack with braid openings that you
could probably fit a pencil through.
 
> Some of the cheaper coax brands have less than about 70% shielding 
> making them pretty leaky to rf.  It works just killer for adding a 
> little extra signal horse-power to a carrier current broadcast 
> station. Radiax without trying... 

You could run it up the tower and have a really long antenna.  Lots of
capture area ;-)

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