[TowerTalk] Aluminum Wire

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Sat May 22 15:30:01 EDT 2004


> It's thin, yes.  But it's also unruly... I'm prettty sure
it's
> aluminum clad steel, like copperclad.
>
> > The wire in my HyGain 40m looks several times thicker.
>
> It probably is.

I'd stay away from a thin wire. Linear loading is bad enough
with a conductor having large surface area. I wouldn't use
anything thinner than Hygain originally uses.

Strength is only a small part of the equation.




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