I don't know what kind of cable Radio Shack is selling for that price, but
it must be very poor quality. Probably 5 times the loss of any quality
rg-8 size cable at 2 meters and above. RG-8 size cable of any type should
be atleast $ .50 per foot and more like $ .75 per foot or more.

There should not be any tables for SWR for differant cables based on the
band.
Maybe you mean the loss in dB instead of SWR.


It was a close out special at $10 per 50 feet. I had to hit two stores
before I found any, a Ham who was working at the first RS store had bought
out all that his store had in stock. I bought a 100 feet at that price at
the second store. I also have a 50 foot section of some of their RG-8 stuff
I bought 20 years ago for SSB CB use (yes, I once was wooed by the dark
side). Can't tell any real difference on HF frequencies when using the old
RS RG-8 or some new RG-213 I got from Texas Towers.

Harold
KD5SAK