right antenna wire
so very few companies actually make antenna wire for antennas all right
by the way the dx10 is back in stock let's take this through so antenna wire
this is the only antenna wire i know which was made and designed literally
four antennas most other wire the reel i've just brought through has been tested
and worked happens to work very well as an antenna but that's the only one i know that was literally
designed from the ground up for the military i mean it would be wouldn't it it's not ham radio
however the history of this stuff is called dx10 is quite interesting now
we use this for so239 that's a bit spare isn't it lucky uh it's cut a bit off but
let's just assemble disassemble the two of these and i'll show you what i mean
so this is um 24 strands of 0.2 millimeter copper wire
what has the memory very often is the sheath of the p this is a pvc now this so happens
to be good for -40 40 centigrade apparently the same as minus 40 fahrenheit and if this stuff dx10
doesn't tangle right you do that with a bunch of radials ask mike mike k8 mrd he'll back me up in
fact most people with if you've had some dx10 and you're watching this make a comment below
tell me what you think of this wire we'll get into this stuff in a minute but the history behind
this wire was it was originally made as a as a two pair right twisted together and it was
designed for the military but not as an antenna wire it was designed actually for demolition
so if they've they blocked that to blow a bridge you know the guy runs away with the reel of wire
doesn't want this to snap and kink and that sort of thing so i think it's why they designed this
really nice flexible pvc anyway they sent me a sample i got samples of wire from everybody and
uh we really liked this tested it out to there's a video somewhere of me doing 1600 watts on that
right so that's dx10 very nice what does it retail for remember the price 39. 39 pounds
probably about to go up so get your order in now by the way everything's in stock right now apart
from an 18 meter nebula which is currently on a ship somewhere on the sewers canal let's cut a bit
of this this was a nine meter no houston that man or beast if it was 10 or 12 meters we could kind
of do something with it but nine meters it was just the end of a reel we'll just cut a bit off
and i'll get lock it ask like you to come close and we can have a look at this
so so far so good so that is it almost looks like coax
and this is the kevlar core
underneath so it's sold as well and everything else if you if you wanted to join that of
course you can't really just solder the two together because kevlar will then be broken
so you'd have to like do a loop with a i don't know it's not really to be
joined but i got the factory i said what's the braking strain on this they said well they they
put and thirty fat five kilogram weight which is more than i weigh right and um it and it worked so
somewhere between 135 and i don't know 150 but eventually all these threads
of um kevlar would i suppose would snap in the end to join this stuff though if you wanted to join
you know regular black wire i'll show you how i do it and in fact i don't even use
in the field even for permanent joins i don't even use solder i'll show you what i do
i'll just prepare the two ends
yes i cut myself this morning it's my fault um and this is a we're called a wireless joint
i can't remember it might have been a t somebody actually documented it but this is all i do
and if you measured that with a an ohmmeter it'd be next to nothing in it but in the field
i don't even sold it i normally just put a bit of tape on it but if you've got some um heat shrink
glue lines marine heat shrink over that then the oxygen can't get to it if the oxygen can't get to
it that means that that can't corrode because there's no water or oxygen how strong is it
oh my goodness
it's genuinely very oh i've got it here in the end so it will come apart in the end a bit of solder
that would have held together better wouldn't it so there we are antenna wire most wire works okay
you don't have to buy antenna wire most wire definitely works but um if you want the real mccoy
sort of stuff the military use then i'm afraid you're into something like this over a pound a
meter i think 125 or something and then dx10 it's just magic lucky wire that i found and uh had the
factory instead of twisting together then make single strands and put it on this reel for us
all right that's it from callum today all the best guys i will see you next time