I tried aluminum radials once, at my folk's house (my dad was a ham). He had an
18AVQ trapped vertical and I decided it would do better work radials. This was
maybe 40 y ago. Somewhere, I'd come across a big coil of Al wire, maybe 8 ga,
pretty cheap. I dutifully laid out as much as I could wherever I could fit it.
Lots of work. It seemed to help a bit but lasted only a few years because it
corroded to nothing!
Kim N5OP
"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
> On Dec 30, 2016, at 00:22, Roger (K8RI) on TT <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
> wrote:
>
> How does the resistivity of the Copper Chloride (What you get with Chlorine
> and moisture on the surface of the Copper wire) on the surface of the Copper
> wire compare to the resistivity of Aluminum wire? I ask as I've seen number
> of posts on newsgroups where Al wire was being used for radials.
>
> Roger (K8RI)
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