Jon,
I had never heard of Muletape and Googled it, and discovered the Detectible
version with embedded wire. I have built <100W antennas with the cattle control
version in 1/2" size. It has fine stainless steel wire rather than tinned
copper. There are a lot of accessories for the farm tape such as clamps that
connect all the wires at once and have an eye for rigging.
I think 4 paralleled 22ga conductors would handle 100W with ease, and the
insulated wire would lessen the worry of running over tree limbs.
Agree with twisting 1 twist per foot to reduce sailing in wind, just as is
often done with window line.
Tom
KF7RSF
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> On Aug 28, 2017, at 13:17, Jon <kd5sfa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure how much power it could handle, I would also twist it so it
> doesn't flap around in the wind as much.
>
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 15:03 Thomas Noel <tnoel@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone ever used the Muletape Quad Detectible as antenna wire?
>>
>> Has 4 22 ga tinned copper insulated wires embedded, so much like electric
>> control fencing but insulated. 4 parallel wires in a 1/2” tape with 1250#
>> breaking strength with the 4 wires bonded seems like a strong lightweight
>> self-supporting conductor for a long dipole or end-fed. Cheap at $80 for a
>> 3000’ roll.
>>
>> Polyester has excellent UV resistance. No idea what the abrasion
>> resistance would be like, but it is designed to be tied in knots and to be
>> dragged through ductwork and conduit.
>>
>> Thomas W Noel
>> KF7RSF
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Jon <kd5sfa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> +1 on muletape !
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:17 Steve Maki <lists@oakcom.org> wrote:
>>
>> Muletape is the only thing to use. It's flat & slippery, does not tend
>> to twist, and won't burn thru your PVC corners. And cheap. And strong.
>>
>> -Steve K8LX
>>
>> On 8/28/2017 1:03 PM, Steve K7AWB wrote:
>>
>> I am going to bury some heliax and coax cables in conduit and I'd
>> like some advice on Pull ropes. I think I'll use two of them so that
>> in the future I have redundancy since once these are buried for 200
>> feet, it would be impossible to dig them up again. What do you
>> suggest? By Pull ropes I mean both nonmetallic ropes and maybe
>> metallic wire such as guy wire or something like that. Steve k7awb
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