n4gix Posted January 30, 2020 Report Posted January 30, 2020 I was gifted with the remainder of a 1000m spool of genuine Andrews 1/2" Superflex FSJ4-50B heliax left over from an Illinois State tower upgrade. There were quite a few leftovers of various sizes including some 1.5" Andrews. In any case I now have a LOT of 1/2" heliax taking up room in my garage. A GMRS group I belong to was planning to put yet another repeater up and needed at least 200'. Well, I wound up with far more than actually needed...The cable is marked every meter with the length to that point. The loose end is marked 1219m and the tail end is marked 1414m. The difference is at least 195 meters, or in feet ~640'... Now I just have to figure out what I'm going to do with the 400' remaining after I donate 200+ feet to my group! Quote
gortex2 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Posted January 31, 2020 Superflex is great for inside stuff and jumpers. Thats what its normally used for. Rarely do we run it up a tower, but it would work. On most projects LDF is run on the tower then the FSJ from the bulkhead to the equipment racks. I have all my duplexer jumpers built out of FSJ. Quote
RCM Posted February 2, 2020 Report Posted February 2, 2020 If you want to get rid of some, let me know! Quote
n4gix Posted February 5, 2020 Author Report Posted February 5, 2020 I'll keep that in mind... RCM 1 Quote
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