Feeling ripped

Put a magnet to the "copper" wire in the coax before you strip any more. I found all cable co. coax is copper plated steel wire. All the coax I use in my Ham radio setup has copper in it. Also the Direct TV coax, so far, is good copper center conductor. Best to you, Mike aka ke4ilg

Originally Posted by miked

Put a magnet to the "copper" wire in the coax before you strip any more. I found all cable co. coax is copper plated steel wire. All the coax I use in my Ham radio setup has copper in it. Also the Direct TV coax, so far, is good copper center conductor. Best to you, Mike aka ke4ilg

Learn something on this site every day, just stripped and sold about 2 lbs (cleaned) with my #2 copper the other day, lol didn't mean to cheat the yard out of that $6. But now I know not to wast my time before checking it. i assumed it was solid copper, but always wondered why it was so stiff.