> Been a while since I bought electric fence wire, but the
last 'wire' I
> bought was stainless. The last electric
> fenceing material I bought was nylon with wire inbeded.
Worked great
> and was a lot easier to put up.
> Anyone have any thoughts about using this 'stuff'' for
field day type
> antennas?
My 160 4sq elements are now made from #12 or 13 ga
aluminum fence wire. No problem.
I'd never use steel or a nylon coated wire for transmitting.
I had poor results in the 70's using cad-plated steel in an
80M dipole. Bandwidth was pretty wide.
73 Tom
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