RG8x Coaxial Cable 200ft,PVC White Marine Antenna Cable Mini-8,Low Loss RG 8X Cable 200 Feet,RG8x Coax Cable 50 ohm

The good stuff. If you need a low loss alternative to rg-8x or rg-58; this is exactly what you want. Remember the center conductor of this coax product is solid copper. If you require a coax that can flex, then this isn't what you need. Black PVC outer jacket should have pretty good UV light resistant to break down. Most grey or clear jacket rg-8x won't last long exposed to direct sunlight. This is a better choice for fixed base station use over rg-8x because of lower loss and UV light resistant properties.We are all looking and trying to get a coax product that will meet our needs and not blast the bank to tiny little pieces by being extremely expensive.73 Earnest K5EWM.Update:I made up some jumpers using this coax. This product has a 100% solid copper center conductor with a dense foam insulator layer that is covered by foil shield and high quality copper braid and the outside black coating is high quality slick like UV resistant PVC that is made to last. For a non-flex environment this stuff will definitely do the job. It's very much a near copy of LMR-240 which has loss characteristics much like RG-8 FOAM, Which is a pretty good coaxial feed line for most uses. For HF VHF and citizens band 11 meters it should work out very well. Only problem I see is if used in a big truck mobile environment the constant vibration might cause the solid copper center conductor wire to break as stranded wire is far more forgiving to vibration environment. For the average Joe cb mobile if the cable is secured and not allowed to flex on the wind while traveling and assuming the vehicle rides better than a diesel big truck, they may get good service life with this coax product.For someone whom is trying to minimize rf loss and control cost for amateur use or cb base station use it should work awesome with low wind load and reduce weight and using ordinary coax connectors, should provide years of not decades of good service life with relatively low loss of signal. This is a good product for most applications except where high vibration service would be encountered.73 and GOD bless. Earnest K5EWM.Update:Still going strong and my antenna anylizer is happy as well with 100% of my line runs and jumpers. I'm planning on ordering more for a portable setup operations for ARES/RACES emergency amateur radio operations. I feel this product will serve me well and cut down the weight of lugging RG213 around and have less loss issues. My portable emcomms station equipment includes a hf rig with 160 meter ofc antenna a.nd a dual band aluminum jpole and a vhf/UHF dual band rig and a ldg automatic antenna tuner along with my antenna anylizer and a 50 ohm impedance dummy load and soldering equipment extra connectors all for the just in case if needed.This is a great product priced reasonable and I'm not buying anything else as far as coax cable goes. 73 Earnest k5ewm.Update: So far this is working very well for my applications. I am revamping the antenna farm and getting excellent service from this product.For those of you whom need a flexible coax feedline product, this is not what you need. Since its hard to locate a good quality rg-8x with a flexible center conductor and good UV light properties for durability with sun exposure.For the truckers, as this is a severe environment for any coax feedline product. I think RG-213 with stranded heavy duty center conductor and polyethylene insulator and that heavy duty shield and tough black pvc jacket. You pinch that stuff into a direct short in an accident, you likely didn't survive the wreck. Rg-213 was developed in ww2 as a near fail safe coax feedline product with extremely high reliability. It was used everywhere in the theater of war. Many a message got through that meant life or death.I know truckers are not considered 1st responders; but they need to hear and know what is going on with the road ahead of them. Big Truck wrecks happen every day. How much of not being able to hear what road conditions are actually contribute to all those big rig wrecks?This is a great product but not for truckers. 73 GOD bless Earnest K5EWM.

Good quality wire at a great value! This was a great purchase and I turned around and ordered it again. As advertised and great quality. Value for what you get is perfect. Would definitely consider purchasing again. I utilize this for ham radio antennas, and make my own connections. Can't go wrong here.

I have Tram RG8x cable for my amateur radio needs, and cut up 200 feet of it into several cables. Put on PL259's with no problem. Stranded core. Nice and flexible. Tried this brand I never heard of, and it arrived in a plastic bag. Solid core. What I found was that it is not flexible at all, and remains in the position to which I bend it. Not a fan. I am sure it will be effective as a cable, but not too friendly to deployment. Final point - I will not buy it again. I will pay more for 500 feet of TRAM cable.

For the price it is a very good cable. Many people complained that it was a stiff cable. If you know anything about a solid core cables it will be stiff. I think that it is very ridiculous some people complain that it did not come on a spool.

Fantastic item!! Works great!!

I bought a 200' roll of this to connect to and inverted Vee ham radio antenna for 40/20/15/10 meters behind my house. It was a fairly long run - I used 175'.This wire has a solid inner conductor which means it will be fairly stiff, though once placed into position this won't be an issue.I wouldn't use it in an application where it will frequently get bent - such as a rotating beam antenna or an antenna mounted on a trunk lid that pivots open.Because of skin effect - which becomes more pronounced at higher frequencies I wouldn't use this for VHF/UHF (or 6 meter) applications but I think it's OK for HF frequencies.If you could budget a bit more money get some RG8X with a multi strand inner conductor and not a single solid conductor..Beyond that - the jacket appears to be quite durable and the foil and copper wire shield seems to be adequate for most applications.In use it seems to pass the signal well.

I use this RG8X over all other types of coax for VHF radio needs. The large SOLID core is so important for quality radio transmission and extended life. It will give you years of quaintly service.

Very nice cable fast shipping and good quality i use this for my antenna going to my ham radio and is working wood

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Good quality cable, much improved over standard RG58. This cable is much thicker with a solid copper conductor. Good quality braided shield. Better performance with less signal loss at UHF than RG58

Used for my Automatic Identification System on my yacht. Cable run from the top of the mast, down through the mast then through various areas behind walls etc to terminate at the nav desk.Good solid copper core makes the cable semi rigid but could still easily loop at around 100mm diameter.