Topband: Bev Wire

Keith Jillings keithj@dircon.co.uk
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:15:13 +0000


k6se@juno.com wrote:

 
> My theory about this is that the steel wire, having greater loss, did a
> better job of providing more attenuation of signals arriving from the
> opposite direction because they had to propagate down to the far end of
> the wire and then be reflected back down the wire to the receiver end. 


Isn't it a wonderful and rather "different" concept that you're better of using 
poor-quality wire for this antenna because it performs better as a result!


Hi-Fi buffs with your figure-of-eight oxygen-free copper wire at $20 a metre - eat your hearts out!


Keith
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Keith Jillings
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