Here in sunny NM, with nothing resembling grass, I just laid my sixty 120 ft radials on the top of the desert. It's stranded 14 AWG with a brown THHN insulation that matches the dirt. I figure in a couple of years the insulation will pretty much be gone, and then it will just be bare copper. Ain't nobody going to be bothered by that except the coyotes. The antenna is 750 ft from my station, and fed with (buried) 50 ohm 1/2 inch CATV hardline.
Don't know how Carl finds that cheap PTFE stranded wire. I wire all my homebrew projects with it, and am always on the lookout, but never see any at the local surplus places. Los Alamos National Labs is nearby but never seems to have any. I'm guessing they must use something else to wire up nuclear weapons. 73, Jim W8ZR _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
