[TowerTalk] Using steel e-fence wire for antenna wire

[Al Kozakiewicz]

#4 copper wire buried and brazed to a copper ring is the standard AM broadcast radial system.  30 year expected life IIRC.

Al
AB2ZY
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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of dw <bw_dw at fastmail.fm>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 11:50 AM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Using steel e-fence wire for antenna wire

My only experience with the use of steel electric fence wire and the
resilience of connections is using them as radials for vertical antenna
experiments.
In that case, I wrapped 8 wires together and brazed them to a steel
plate which I bolted to the bottom of the verticals radial plate.
Left them laying on the ground for a couple of years here in the high
humidity summers and deep snow winters.
Later after I got rid of the vertical antenna I pulled up those radials
to put them into storage and found the brazing still looked good and
solid.
Don't know how many years it would take for those connections to
deteriorate.
N1BBR
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