Topband: Radials through heavy brush

[Pete Michaelis - N8TR]

Years ago my wife Mary, N8DMM used a 12' piece of 3/8" diameter
aluminum tubing like a long sewing needle to thread 160 and 80
meter radials under heavy brush.  It worked very well.  A piece of
1/2" tubing was used to splice two pieces together the few times
we needed a longer "needle"

73 Pete - N8TR




At 07:27 PM 8/11/2012, Jeff wrote:
>Another economical and light weight method of pushing wire through brush
>would be to use a 10' piece of 1/2" PVC or plastic electrical conduit. In
>the case of the electrical conduit it can be extended by adding multiple
>pieces together for greater length. It's lite weight and flexible enough to
>bounce it with one hand over things like roots or stones that might get in
>the way. If you don't want to carry 10' lengths of plastic pipes around,
>look in the big box stores or electrical suppliers for threaded push rods
>made of fiberglass. Typically they come in 4' sections with 4 or 5 in pack
>that threat one onto the other and are brightly colored. That makes it easy
>to find in the leaves and twigs.  Just tape your wire on to the end and
>push.  Autumn is coming, time to get those TB antennas back in the air.
>W7JW