Topband: TopBand DownUnder

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

I remember the Slinky's being copper plated. I wonder if the skin depth lowered losses on 160 meters.

Mike N2MS

> On 09/14/2021 9:33 PM W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> I have a drawer full of slinky's the steel version.  I recall that 
> someone was making slinky beverages for people that could not stretch 
> out 300 plus beverages.  I never got around to making one.  Maybe the 
> slinky's are collector items now and I can get my money back!  HI!
> 
> W0MU
> 
> On 9/14/2021 5:08 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
> > A bad idea when the Slinky is steel.  Helical wound copper wire 
> > antennas do work, for TB we used a wound vertical on a FG pole at H40TT.
> >
> > It was amazing to me that EZNEC will auto generate a helix wire of 
> > arbitrary dimensions, pitch, and segmentation.
> >
> > Grant KZ1W
> >