[TowerTalk] Lightweight Antenna Wire For Portable Work?

RCM robrk at nidhog.net
Thu Nov 1 23:49:27 EDT 2018



> On Nov 1, 2018, at 21:47, Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net> wrote:
> 
> You better check that wire as it is likely steel wire with a thin coat of aluminum (I shop for my electric fence supplies there.) Skin effect at lower freqs might not be as good as you'd lke.
> 
> 

Stuff I have is all AL.

40 dipole up for years.

Local made open wire feeders, worked fine.

Couldn’t measure any loss in 100 feet.


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