Hello,
Yes, I've used it for FD antennas, 40 and 80 meters, as well as a pair of
480 foot Beverages. The Beverages presently are in use. The Northeast one
runs through woods so every now and then you have to go out and remove a
branch from it and tighten it back up.
Noalox(?) is used with stainless steel H/W to secure the aluminum to the
matching xfmrs (Beverages) and the 1:1 baluns for the FD antennas. Even
though FD antennas, theoretically, only have to last 24 hours these FD
antennas have been used for FD for 4 years (96 hours so far!). They
resonant at the same freq. each year.
At 02:09 PM 3/23/05, Jim Jones wrote:
>Been a while since I bought electric fence wire, but the last 'wire' I
>bought was stainless. The last electric
>fenceing material I bought was nylon with wire inbeded. Worked great
>and was a lot easier to put up.
>Anyone have any thoughts about using this 'stuff'' for field day type
>antennas?
>
>73 Jim
>
>
>Jim Lux wrote:
>
> >At 03:55 PM 3/22/2005, Neal Campbell wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I know that the bulk fence wire you can buy at the local farm supply will
> >>disappear if you have very acidic soil, etc. when used for ground radials.
> >>Does anyone know why this wire would not be usable for elevated radials?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Resistivity? You might want to go through the equations in the various
> >articles and see if the tradeoff of length vs # of radials, etc. varies if
> >the wire is more resistive.
> >
> >In general, since aluminum is so much cheaper than copper, you can probably
> >make up for the lower resistivity by just running twice as many
> >radials. But heck, you might not even need that.
> >
> >There is also the problem of making good durable connections to aluminum
> >wire. For an electric fence, it's one thing, but if you're expecting it to
> >carry significant RF current, it's another.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>73 de Neal k3nc
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