[TowerTalk] Fwd: Field telephone wire for radials

[Hans Hammarquist]

 The more the merrier.
It's just a matter of how much work you want to do, as it takes some efforts to split it. You will get a better result if you split the cable for the same amount of cable. On the other hand, there is an optimum where adding more radial have very little impact on the efficiency. Don't remember the number but I don't think you will see any major improvement after bout 20 radial.
Have fun and 73 de,
Hans - N2JFS
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Smar via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Sent: Sun, Nov 1, 2020 6:27 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] Field telephone wire for radials

TT:

    I recently purchased a quantity - actually, a kilometer - of
two-conductor Army field telephone wire.  I intend to use some/much of this
wire to augment the half-dozen radial wires I now have surrounding my
shunt-fed tower for 160M.  

    In your experience, would it be better to split the cable into two
conductors (it's thin wire, maybe 22 AWG) and lay each in a slit in the
grass separately, or should I keep the conductors intact, lay them as a
single radial, then solder the wires together at the ends? I have plenty of
wire to do either.

    Thanks for your advice.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F




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