Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 215, Issue 1

[lmlangenfeld]

I have done it both ways; no big deal. One thing you should consider, however, is the strands -- once split -- get much more tangly and difficult to handle thanks to the steel wire.Good luck!Mark -- WA9ETWSent from my U.S. Cellular® Smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: topband-request at contesting.com Date: 11/2/20  11:00 AM  (GMT-06:00) To: topband at contesting.com Subject: Topband Digest, Vol 215, Issue 1 Send Topband mailing list submissions to	topband at contesting.comTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit	http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topbandor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to	topband-request at contesting.comYou can reach the person managing the list at	topband-owner at contesting.comWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Topband digest..."Today's Topics:   1. Field telephone wire for radials (Gene Smar)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 18:25:41 -0500From: "Gene Smar" <ersmar at verizon.net>To: <topband at contesting.com>Subject: Topband: Field telephone wire for radialsMessage-ID: <00ba01d6b0a6$5179ba00$f46d2e00$@verizon.net>Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"Gents:     I recently purchased a quantity - actually, a kilometer - oftwo-conductor telephone wire.  I intend to use some/much of this wire toaugment the half-dozen radial wires I now have surrounding my shunt-fedtower for 160M.       In your experience, would it be better to split the cable into twoconductors (it's thin wire, maybe 22 AWG) and lay each in a slit in thegrass separately, or should I keep the conductors intact, lay them as asingle radial, then solder the wires together at the ends? I have plenty ofwire to do either.     Thanks for your advice.73 deGene Smar  AD3F------------------------------Subject: Digest Footer_______________________________________________Topband mailing listTopband at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband------------------------------End of Topband Digest, Vol 215, Issue 1***************************************