[TowerTalk] tree strung dipoles

[Tom Osborne]

I use solid wire on the 80 meter dipole here and it's been up for a long 
time.

One thing not to do is solder the connections if possible, especially with 
stranded wire.  Where the wire is soldered is where it will break.  Just 
wrap tight! 73
Tom W7WHY

> #12 solid copper should be considered a minumum for this sort of
> installation, and #10 copper is better. I use plain ordinary THHN (house
> wire). Equally important, every element of the dipole must be quite
> robust. The Alpha Delta center insulator, and the one that The Wireman
> sells are the ONLY ones to consider. The RadioWavz are AWFUL. I bought
> two to try -- both broke apart with only the weight of RG8X coax pulling
> on them.