[TowerTalk] Antenna wire source?

[Ken WA8JXM]

I can't find exact data but I think the trailing wire antenna for the
AN/ART-13 was 200 ft of flexwire.  If you can locate the antenna (Ebay?)
that may be a source.

I cannot imagine Copperweld and flexwire in the same sentence.

Copperweld brings back memories.  When I was a teenager, I got a MARS
issued "antenna kit" including 5200 feet of 3 strand 12 ga Copperweld
wire!  I never used it for antenna wire but it did well for guy wires!  The
kit included some massive insulators but they forgot to send me the antenna
supports :-(  Oh well, I didn't have room in the backyard for a
rhombic anyway!

Ken

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 12:52 AM Jim Pruitt <jpruitt67 at gmail.com> 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.  I would like to
> find some of this but no clue what it is called let alone a possible
> source.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jim Pruitt
> WA7DUY
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