Tim -

Belden made a very popular RG-6/U quad shield coax (7199?) that was a steel
center conductor with a copper flashed overlay.
Worked fine -- rated up to 1 GHz.

The last 1000' spool that I ordered was a newer cable (solid copper center
conductor) and good to 2 GHz.

w9gb

"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message
ups.com...
Is the center conductor of the el-cheapo RG-6 found in home
improvement stores always copperweld? It seems to be 18AWG copperweld
but maybe I'm being naive...

Is this part of the RG-6 mil-spec, or just the way they make it today?

Tim KA0BTD

Tim Shoppa wrote:
Is the center conductor of the el-cheapo RG-6 found in home
improvement stores always copperweld? It seems to be 18AWG copperweld
but maybe I'm being naive...

Is this part of the RG-6 mil-spec, or just the way they make it today?
there is NO mil spec for RG6.. (nor for RG8, RG213, etc.)
Those specs (for PVC insulated cables) were abondoned 20 odd years ago.
(and in any case, would more properly be something like MIL-C-17/74C for
RG213 or MIL-C-17/2 for RG6)

As it happens MIL-C-17/2 does call out copperweld and double shield, so
something purporting to be RG6 would have a copperweld center conductor.

The new replacement would be MIL-C-17/180-00001, which has a crosslinked
polyolefin jacket and no "RG" number, double shield, but not copperweld
center. (at least as of MIl-C-17G, 1990)

What you can get is "RG-6 type" or "similar to what used to be RG-6", etc.



Tim KA0BTD

I have several ppeices of RG-6 in my garage that our cableman gave me off
his scraps in the truck and not one inch is coperweld.

KF5DE
"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message
ups.com...
Is the center conductor of the el-cheapo RG-6 found in home
improvement stores always copperweld? It seems to be 18AWG copperweld
but maybe I'm being naive...

Is this part of the RG-6 mil-spec, or just the way they make it today?

Tim KA0BTD