I remember the Slinky's being copper plated. I wonder if the skin depth lowered
losses on 160 meters.
Mike N2MS
> On 09/14/2021 9:33 PM W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have a drawer full of slinky's the steel version. I recall that
> someone was making slinky beverages for people that could not stretch
> out 300 plus beverages. I never got around to making one. Maybe the
> slinky's are collector items now and I can get my money back! HI!
>
> W0MU
>
> On 9/14/2021 5:08 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
> > A bad idea when the Slinky is steel. Helical wound copper wire
> > antennas do work, for TB we used a wound vertical on a FG pole at H40TT.
> >
> > It was amazing to me that EZNEC will auto generate a helix wire of
> > arbitrary dimensions, pitch, and segmentation.
> >
> > Grant KZ1W
> >
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