[Elecraft] wire for random wire antenna using kx3

[riese-k3djc at juno.com]

if you can find telephone house service wire,,, is copper clad and
impossible to brake
makes good antenna,, not for use as feeders though

Bob K3DJC
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 09:04:04 -0900 Edward R Cole 
> <kl7uw at acsalaska.net> writes:
> > I see the humour genes is alive and well in some hams!
> > 
> > But seriously plastic coated wire will work on HF antennas, though 
> 
> > you may see a slight lenthening of resonant length vs bare wire.
> > 
> > My 80m/40m fan inverted-V is made of coated copper-weld and I just 
> 
> > tuned it using my MFJ-269B antenna analyzer.  My 43 by 122-foot 
> > inverted-L (630m band) is also the same copper-weld steel.  It 
> uses 
> > a 
> > huge base coil that set the tap for resonance.  Z = 20 +0j  It 
> warms 
> > 
> > worms well in the winter with 100w input and 4w EIRP.
> > 
> > Years ago I made a light-weight 80m dipole using 18ga speaker 
> > wire.  Worked Anchorage over 500 mi with 100w from a checkpoint on 
> 
> > the Iditarod Sled Dog race.
> > 
> > 73, Ed - KL7UW
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