RG8X Coaxial Cable 200ft,Low Loss 50 ohm RG 8X Cable 200 Feet,Black

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. UPDATE: So far so good and absolutely no issues whatsoever. I use this for base amateur radio antennas and yes even 2 meter as well. No degrading of outer black PVC jacket yet at all. No sweetheart issues either. It works fine with my HF vertical antenna and has held up twice as long as the rg8x grey coax it replaced because the outer grey jacket of the rg8x was not uv resistant and the sun destroyed it. This product is a winner for ham radio operators and yes even you CB guys as well that operate on a tite budget. I wouldn't recommend it for the mobile environment as the center conductor is solid and does not flex. If you force flex much it will break the center conductor. So I don't recommend it for mobile use. Find some black PVC jacket rg8x and rg213 if you want the toughest flexible coax known to mankind. But you pay for that rg213. Truckers need good quality coax, like a black PVC jacket rg8x with stranded flexible center conductor or rg213. Yes sir they trash 🗑️ the airwaves with a wide assortment of 4 letter words. But they also warn others of road hazards and that prevents wrecks. So truckers do need good quality coax that works every time they key the microphone, it could be yours or someone you know life they are saving. It's pretty good coax on a budget. It passes all my test with excellent results. This is my final update. It works damn good. 73 GOD bless Earnest k5ewm 👍🇺🇲👍.

I tested this RG8X when I received prior to installation (thank goodness). This cable looks more like LMR240 because of the foil rap around the dielectric. Very tightly woven copper braid...nice, solid copper center conductor...nice. However, I put 100 watts through the 200' run of cable and got 40 watts out the other end. I know it was 200', a long run for sure and longer then I would need for my antenna installs. But I also ran 100 watts through 200' of some name brand RG8X and got 90 watts out the other end. I'm not sure why I got these results. Maybe the center conductor of this Amazon cable is not pure copper? But the bottom line is I returned it and would not recommend this cable for ham radio uses. KF0ALT

Wishing I had of bought 500' now.

The pictures of this looked like the braid was thicker and more dense. It will probably serve my purposes, however I am not going to trust it for longtime outside use. Next time I buy Coax, I will go to a store where I can see the inside of it in person.

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.