[TowerTalk] Horse fence wire antenna

[Keith Dutson]

My roll of tape is not magnetic.

Keith NM5G

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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Horse fence wire antenna

On 5/22/2012 8:14 PM, Rick Karlquist wrote:
> A dumb idea.  Horse fence wire is stainless steel.  It has a much 
> higher DC resistance than copper.  The situation is even worse at RF 
> because it is magnetic.

Maybe so, maybe not.  Most SS is non magnetic, but there are variations that
are.

73

Roger (K8RI)

> I once measured
> some nickel wire at 80 MHz and the resistance was incredibly high.  
> The heating due to the loss won't be obvious because the heating is 
> distributed over a lot of wire, which is in free air.
> The loss of RF will be noticeable on the S-meter of the station you 
> are talking to.
>
> The horse fence antenna is similar to the Maxcom antenna "matching" 
> network that consisted of a 50 ohm power resistor.
> Radiates equally poorly at all frequencies.
>
> Rick N6RK
>
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