[GreenKeys] Barbed wire fence phone systems & chain link 'radials'

[Richard Knoppow]

    I should think an arrangement like that would be very noisy. 
On a similar subject, has anyone used a long fence wire as a 
beverage antenna?

On 1/3/2022 12:49 PM, Ralph Irish wrote:
> *From: *"Ralph Irish" <w8roi at wowway.com>
> *To: *"Don Robert House" <drhouse42 at icloud.com>, "greenkeys" 
> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>, "greenkeys-request" 
> <greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent: *Monday, January 3, 2022 3:26:17 PM
> *Subject: *Re: Barbed wire fence phone systems
> 
> I have a Hustler trap vertical, (5BTV) bolted to one of the fence 
> posts for the fence
> that separates our property from the next one to the east. 
>   Needless to say, a galvanized
> wire 'groundplane' with perhaps several thousand 'junctions' 
> where one piece of wire
> is bent at a 90 degree and interlocked with another, probably has 
> its drawbacks.
> 
> I have discovered that if I take my rubber mallet out there and 
> smack the bottom piece of
> pipe as high as I can reach, about a dozen times, that seems to 
> cause enough vibration to
> get the many 'joints'  between aluminum tubing and traps, etc. to 
> sort of re-establish
> themselves.  Know that there are conductive 'pastes' that serve 
> the same purpose, and
> probably don't require the ongoing 'percussive maintenance', but 
> I'd hate to take it down
> just for that purpose since it has served me so well for the past 
> 35 or 40 years.  Could it
> be better?  Probably.
> 
> I hope to locate a few photos I have taken of this arrangement 
> and put them in here soon.
> 
> 73 and "Happy New Year" to the G/K gang.
> 
> Ralph - W8ROI
> 
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Don Robert House" <drhouse42 at icloud.com>
> *Sent: *Monday, January 3, 2022 2:41:30 PM
> *Subject: *Barbed wire fence phone systems
> 
> Thanks to Brother Larry Godek for this!
> https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/ 
> <https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/>
> <https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/>
> 	
> Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make 
> phone calls | Texas Standard 
> <https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/>
> Historian J. Evetts Haley wrote that, in its time, the old XIT 
> Ranch up in the Texas Panhandle was “probably the largest fenced 
> range in the world.” He recalled that its barbed wire enclosed 
> over 3 million acres of land. At the north end alone, the fence 
> ran for 162 miles. The unique enclosure ...
> www.texasstandard.org <http://www.texasstandard.org/>
> 
> 
> 
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