[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 127, Issue 73 COPPERWELD --

[Pfizenmayer]

FWIW ____ There must be copperweld and COPPERWELD - as a kid in about 1953 I 
bought a couple  500 foot rolls of #18 "COPPERWELD" at Steinberg Radio in 
downtown  Cincinnati --  it is now 2013 and I still now have hung up an 80 
meter dipole which was fed  at various times with 300 ohm twinlead , 450 
open wire line , and now coax as an inverted V - its the same 132 feet of 
#18 "COPPERWELD . My guess it was WW2 war surplus .

For the old timers -  the center insulator is the one from the old Amphenol 
300 ohm folded dipole kits !!!! Finally had to glue the strain relief piece 
in place- the shoulder wore off.

I have a 30M dipole and a 12M dipole hanging up off my tower now using the 
same wire but they are mere children  , only maybe 5 -10 years old- 30 
whenever  WARC started - 12 is only couple years old.

Never had a break.  Ohio ,Ill ,Iowa, and now Az since 1970.

And I still have a few hundred feet on the original coil in a box and it 
still shiny as new ?????? NOT FOR SALE.


Hank K7HP