Topband: Galvanized Beverage antenna wire inquiry

[Bruce]

Early in 2007 I took a survey about Beverage antennas on this reflector.
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Earl K6SE (sk)  was the one making exact termination test on his 7' above the ground Beverages.  He was using AWG 17 galvanized steel electric fence wire, the longest (1100 FT.) achieving 60 db front-to-back and 60-db front-to-side. He replaced the galvanized wire with copper wire, but did not achieve near the same results, so went back to galvanized.  In additional emails, Earl  believed that it was the resistance of galvanized wire, making unwanted signals travel twice the resistive distance. 

Has anyone else done Beverage wire comparisons, and what results?

73
Bruce-K1FZ