Hi Tom.

I have no experience with this particular brand of coax, but I will relate 
an experience from a few years ago.  When I was in the Buffalo area in the 
1980's, I bought some inexpenxive 8x coax from a local ham dealer for 19 
cents a foot.  It turned out that the stuff was inexpensive because the 
jacket was made of a material that would not withstand our harsh western 
New York winters, and after a year or two, the jacket started to split and 
the coax was garbage in nothing flat.  It actually made Radio Shack coax 
look good.  Sometimes you get what you pay for.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 07:17 PM 5/2/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, all.
>
>Yesterday, I called Ham Radio Outlet, and ordered 2 25-foot runs of RG8X
>coax with pl259's on the ends, and was shocked to learn that the price per
>run is $25.95.  The guy from HRO said that coax has gone up trememdously in
>price recently because of the greatly increased cost of copper.  Hmmmmmmmm.
>I went ahead and processed the order anyway, but now, I'm re-thinking what I
>did.
>
>Today, I called R and L Electronics, and can get 25-foot RG8X coax runs with
>pl259's on the ends for $13.95 a piece--almost half the price of the HRO
>stuff.  The guy at R and L Electronics said that they have their coax runs
>specially made for them, but he couldn't tell me who makes them.  He says
>the coax has the name "Jet Stream" on the jacket.
>
>Does anyone know anything about this R and L coax?
>
>Any thoughts on why the HRO stuff might be so much more expensive?
>
>Maybe it's a quality issue, but I'm just not sure.
>
>I am ordering the coax runs for antenna feedlines for our travel trailer, so
>it will have to withstand outdoor conditions.
>
>Thanks for any info or thoughts you can provide.
>
>Best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

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