Rick, This has been discussed here in the past. IIRC, the consensus was that most name-brand F6 and RG-6 coax with a CCS center conductor has a sufficiently thick coating of copper for 160m. The difference between solid copper and CCS is well under 1 dB.
Type the following into Google to access some of that info: site:contesting.com RG-6 CCS loss 160 73, Mike On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist < rich...@karlquist.com> wrote: > Most RG-6 has a copper clad steel center conductor. > Does anyone have data on what the loss of this > type of cable is at 1.8 MHz compared to solid > copper center conductor? Any suggestions > for RG-6 with a solid copper center conductor? > I see Belden 1694A, 7915A, 7916A and 9248 in > the catalog, but don't know if any of this is > available in distribution. Can anyone suggest > some good distributors to buy quality RG-6? > Thanks. > > Rick N6RK > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband