[TowerTalk] Copper Wire For Antennas

[Jim Brown]

On Wed,12/28/2016 12:09 PM, Hank Garretson wrote:
>> A far better solution is to buy #8 solid bare copper from your local big
>> box store and hard draw it to #9. In effect, you're pre-stretching it.:)
>> Pretty simple. lay out 200-250 ft of it, tie one end to an immovable object
>> (tree, utility pole) the other end to a trailer hitch on your towing
>> vehicle, and very slowly pull while an assistant observes. When it breaks,
>> coil it up and repeat.  With assistants, I've done this for four 1,000 ft
>> spools, each of which yields about 1,200 ft of #9.:)
>>
> Do you have a trick to make sure it breaks at one end or the other instead
> of the middle?

No, but it's always broken very close to one end or the other.

73, Jim K9YC