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

Tom Osborne w7why at frontier.com
Mon Sep 21 16:02:05 EDT 2015


I put down some galvanized electric fence wire on the ground for radials
and in a few years it just rusted away.  Wouldn't recommend that.  73
Tom W7WHY

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:50 AM, dw <bw_dw at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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
> --
>  Bw_dw at fastmail.net
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
>


More information about the TowerTalk mailing list