[Antennas] Building antennas

[Dan Richardson]

If you check you'll see that SS has about 15-25% the conductivity of copper.
You can just do a search on "conductivity of metals" on the web and find 
several references.

Danny, K6MHE


At 07:47 PM 4/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I always wondered why the majority of antennas use stainless teel as the
>radiating element when so many radiomen claim it is a lousy performer.
>Perhaps because in the past it was so difficult to work with?  Hard to
>connect?  Nowadays you can solder stainless just as easily as copper, ss to
>ss, ss to copper etc.  I am using many old stainless whips as dedicated
>antennas by soldering directly into BNCs PL-259s etc.  Very solid and no
>more RF resistance than copper, brass, steel, phosphor bronze or any other
>readily available whip material at the local hardware store. Perhaps cost?
>copper wire is relatively cheap and very easy to come by, imagine trying to
>find a 5,000' roll of 8 AWG stainless wire! Worse yet, imagine trying to
>solder it with a three ounce copper, tallow and 50/50.
>
>Kurt
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