On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:00:03 -0700 (PDT), Gary
wrote:

On Jul 2, 9:28*am, "Ralph Mowery" wrote:
Is there a shortage in the supply of coax ? *A ham up the road has been
trying to get some rg8x from The Wireman for a couple of weeks. *They are
out and said they should have some in soon.

There was also some mention of shortage of the open wire\twinlead type.

Is it just this place or is there some shortage in the US of coax and antena
wire.
What about the other coax such as the rg8 size ?

I ran in to the same thing last August at the Huntsville, Al. hamfest-
no 450 ohm open wire line. The high cost of copper prohibits them
from keeping too much inventory on hand. Apparently not much has
changed since August.

The cost of Copper(World wide) hit an all time high about a year ago,
(maybe a bit more) by, IIRC more than rippling, but then dropped
substantially, although not to the original level. It has been working
its way back up slowly.

Another commodity that has skyrocketed is wood. My neighbor did a
remodeling job this spring and saw the price of plywood take a
tremendous jump. Again, this is world wide, not a local or country
wide problem.

The economies of the two most populous countries are taking off at
fantastic rates. In the next decade India will have more college
graduates entering the middle class than the entire population of the
US. China has an almost unbelievable housing boom.

Don't expect things to get much cheaper.


73

Roger (K8RI)

Gary N4AST