> 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 ;-)