But believe the WD1A really works well at this QTH in both forward and
reverse modes. I have made many direct comparisons on extreme DX on 160
and the WD1A was the difference it too to hear the weak signal. My
tests on the VK0 and VP8 Dx-peditions with a 600 foot single wire
Beverage and the WD1A reversible configuration of the same length made
me a firm believe in the WD1A Beverage ability. Furthermore the WD1A is
cheap, strong, easy to construct just passing over limbs of small
trees. In fact it is so strong that when a deer (yes we have them here)
gets caught up in them the far end boxes, until I put in break away
jumpers, was the victim.
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Hi Herb and all,
When I was in the Army, 1958 to 1960,, I was a "Field Communications
Crewman". It meant, I helped string telephone wire.
We used what was called WD-1TT. It was two separate conductors. They
were twisted, not molded together. Each conductor was made of 3 steel
wires and 4 copper wires making a 7 strand conductor. It might have
been 4 steel and 3 copper.
I have never found listings for WD-1TT on eBay. We spliced it by
stripping about 10 inches from each conductor and tying a square knot
and twisting the loose end on the conductor and covering with
friction tape and then Scotch electrical tape. We could run 3
telephone circuits on 2 wires and ground with isolation transformers.
Regards...Price W0RI
With steel being very lossy AND magnetic AND frequency
dependent, the characteristic impedance of this
stuff is likely to be complex and frequency varying.
I don't see how it would ever work well for a
reversible beverage.
Rick N6RK
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