[TowerTalk] Aluminum Fence wire for elevated radials

[Jim Jones]

Been a while since I bought electric fence wire, but the last 'wire' I 
bought was stainless.  The last electric
fenceing material I bought was nylon with wire inbeded.  Worked great 
and was a lot easier to put up.
Anyone have any thoughts about using this 'stuff'' for field day type 
antennas?

73  Jim


Jim Lux wrote:

>At 03:55 PM 3/22/2005, Neal Campbell wrote:
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>>I know that the bulk fence wire you can buy at the local farm supply will
>>disappear if you have very acidic soil, etc. when used for ground radials.
>>Does anyone know why this wire would not be usable for elevated radials?
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>Resistivity?  You might want to go through the equations in the various 
>articles and see if the tradeoff of length vs # of radials, etc. varies if 
>the wire is more resistive.
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>In general, since aluminum is so much cheaper than copper, you can probably 
>make up for the lower resistivity by just running twice as many 
>radials.   But heck, you might not even need that.
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>There is also the problem of making good durable connections to aluminum 
>wire.  For an electric fence, it's one thing, but if you're expecting it to 
>carry significant RF current, it's another.
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>>73 de Neal k3nc
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