I had a friend who worked for the Railroad. When they went to RF
communications I was gifted to rolls of Copperweild 12 ga.
Working with this meteral was a learning experience. Some times painfull when
you rough cut to length it took on a life of it’s own. The build up kenitic
energy came alive I solved this dangrious senero by attaching one end to the
Kubota and rolling it out to desired length attaching it roll and all to a
tree and yanking the length straight with the tractor. I then use as mentions
my go to joint Dual Split nuts…at the end of the porsilin insulator
Gave up on that meterial and went with THHN/THWN at the new QTH
My .02
Wayne ,W3EA
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Wire
I also have had no issues with THHN for antenna wire, even 14AWG works
fine. A 500ft roll is $50-$60. Plus unlike Copperweld it holds up
well in corrosive environments.
John KK9A
Steve K8LX wrote:
I've switched over to #12 THHN, and love it so far. I have a high full
wave 80M diamond quad loop made from it with fairly high tension on the
top half and have not noticed any lowering of resonant frequency so far.
Solid wire is nice cuz it's easy to clean if you need to re-solder anything.
-Steve K8LX
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