A dumb idea. Horse fence wire is stainless steel. It has
a much higher DC resistance than copper. The situation is
even worse at RF because it is magnetic. I once measured
some nickel wire at 80 MHz and the resistance was incredibly
high. The heating due to the loss won't be obvious because
the heating is distributed over a lot of wire, which is in free air.
The loss of RF will be noticeable on the S-meter of the station you
are talking to.
The horse fence antenna is similar to the Maxcom antenna
"matching" network that consisted of a 50 ohm power resistor.
Radiates equally poorly at all frequencies.
Rick N6RK
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