A roll of copper wire is an excellent conductor and simultaneously a source of a base metal. Due to the latter, such wire is very rare in the Zone. All the reserves of this wire were found, melted and delivered to recycling centers back in the 90s.
― In-game description
A roll of copper wire is an item in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.
Description[]
It is one of the materials that Nitro requests the player to find as part of his side mission Radio equipment. As with the rest of the materials, this item is found inside the Yanov Cement Factory. Two rolls can be found inside the building; one is found on the top floor on a table; the other is found on the second floor in the same room as the pack of capacitors, in a room with rusty walls with a ladder nearby that leads to the first floor.