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Subject: [TowerTalk] Long Wire Sag
From: Gedas <w8bya@mchsi.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:25:36 -0400
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I am planning to put up a long inverted v antenna with it's feedpoint at 85' using 600' total wire (300' on each leg). The ends will be near the ground, only 20-25 feet high.

My question is given that each leg of this antenna will be 300' long am I better off going with a lighter weight #14 THHN insulated stranded wire or some heavier #12 THHN stranded? I am not going to purchase a different wire that would be better suited like copper-weld etc since I have plenty of these other two and want to try something today.

I realize there is going to be a _lot_ of sag in either case but I am not sure of the breaking strengths of either #12 or #14 and in the end which will help keep the wire up higher with less sag. Any ideas?

Gedas, W8BYA

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