I have used Wireman's little teeny soft stranded jacketed stuff for portable
dipoles, etc. on vacation. It works great, is light, relatively strong and
nearly invisible, and easy to pack/roll up. I highly recommend it for those
purposes. Just the ticket for your K1 in the mountains. It's just the big
Flexweave stuff I've had problems with, and I guess I brought that on myself
by treating it like #12 Copperweld, which treatment it probably was never
designed to take. Next time I'll put up the copperweld. It's evil as hell to
handle but doesn't come down, either.
73 Jerry W5KP
----- Original Message -----
From: <K4IA@aol.com>
To: <ed@privette.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Best wire (Was: Who makes Flexweave wire)
>
> The WireMan sells this stuff. <A
HREF="http://www.thewireman.com/wire.html";>
> http://www.thewireman.com/wire.html</A>
>
> Says it is popular for portable, weekender and backpacking antennas. That
> would make sense as it wouldn't be up in the elements long enough to
> deteriorate but would be very flexible and easy to roll up, hang, take
down
> etc. I have no experience with the stuff, just happened to come across
the
> link in my travels.
>
> Radio K4IA
> Craig Buck
> Fredericksburg, Virginia USA
> QRP ARCI #2550 FISTS #6702 CC 788 Diamond #64
> K1 #470
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