It should work well for temporary or permanent antennas. I've seen them on TV
(OLN and OTCH) used to keep deer out. Looks like good stuff. Should broadband
the antenna a bit, like using ladder line or like a cage dipole.
73 - Rich, KE3Q
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Jones<mailto:k0hy@comcast.net>
To: Jim Lux<mailto:jimlux@earthlink.net>
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com<mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> ; Neal
Campbell<mailto:nealk3nc@peoplepc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Aluminum Fence wire for elevated radials
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?
73 Jim
Jim Lux wrote:
>At 03:55 PM 3/22/2005, Neal Campbell wrote:
>
>
>>I know that the bulk fence wire you can buy at the local farm supply will
>>disappear if you have very acidic soil, etc. when used for ground radials.
>>Does anyone know why this wire would not be usable for elevated radials?
>>
>>
>
>
>Resistivity? You might want to go through the equations in the various
>articles and see if the tradeoff of length vs # of radials, etc. varies if
>the wire is more resistive.
>
>In general, since aluminum is so much cheaper than copper, you can probably
>make up for the lower resistivity by just running twice as many
>radials. But heck, you might not even need that.
>
>There is also the problem of making good durable connections to aluminum
>wire. For an electric fence, it's one thing, but if you're expecting it to
>carry significant RF current, it's another.
>
>
>
>
>>73 de Neal k3nc
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