[Elecraft] Cable X-Perts RG-8 vs Davis Bury Flex

[Tom Hammond]

Hi Jeff:

>I've read that Davis Bury Flex is very good (low loss) coax. I have
>Cable X-Perts RG-8 (50 feet of it) as my feedline right now.  Is it
>worth my time and $ making a change to Davis Bury Flex or something
>similar?

Personal opinion follows... take it for what little it may be worth...

The Davis RF Bury-Flex is just about equivalent to Belden 9913 
low-loss coax, BUT it's better in the respect that it can be directly 
BURIED for long periods of time with little degradation in the 
polyethylene outer covering.

I use Bury-Flex exclusively between my Shack and the top of my tower, 
a total of about 220' for each run.

This having been said, and for only a 50-foot run, used on HF, I'd by 
lying if I said that you'd notice ANY substantive benefit from 
switching from what you now have to Bury-Flex.

Good luck,

Tom Hammond    N0SS