[TowerTalk] Antenna wire source?

[Jim Pruitt]

Hello Jim.

Your experience with Flexweave does not match my experience.  I had an 
inverted vee up using flexweave and it was up for 8 years until I took 
it down and we do get some hellacious winds here in the PNW.

I was and am looking for the surplus military type wire more for 
portable operations and that is why it is #22 or so.  Someone suggested 
that it is copperweld wire that I am looking for.  I certainly hope not 
as I will never use that stuff again!

Thank you.

Jim Pruitt
WA7DUY


On 9/27/2023 11:02 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 9/27/2023 9:52 PM, Jim Pruitt wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone can tell me what the wire is called that were used 
>> in several military surplus wire antennas. It was like flexweave but 
>> was a bronze copper wire (I thought) and about #22awg or so.
>
> Don't know about that, but for almost 20 years, I've been buying the 
> 500 ft spools of #8 bare copper from the big box stores, and 
> stretching it to approximate #9 hard drawn copper.
>
> I tried several configurations of Flex Weave about 20 years ago, and 
> built several antennas with it. All were on the ground within a year. 
> Another OT ham bought some and had the same results.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC