[TowerTalk] Wire for prop pitch?

[Frank]

Rick Karlquist wrote:

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>>#4?  Is that a typo?  Seems a little bodacious for open wire line.
>>Weight should be okay since it is aluminum.
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>No.  I originally had the shack 1000 feet from the low
>band vertical.  It's nice to have 0.1 dB loss over 1000 feet
>of line on 160 meters.  They don't really sell aluminum much
>smaller than #4.  The light weight is great for suspending
>it.  I have been extremely pleased with this line.
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>BTW, 5 inch spacing gives me 450 ohms. You have to account
>for the XHHW insulation.  Adds about an inch to the spacing
>vs bare wire.
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>Rick N6RK
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Sounds great.

You can buy 250 foot rolls of #17 aluminum electric fence wire.  Costs 
about $7 a roll.  Good for wire antennas.  Probably not all that good 
for a 1000 foot run of lader line.