I've bought a spool of SurfStrand fishing wire to try for an antenna.
7-strand, twisted bare copper with a "test" rating of 30 lbs and overall diameter of 0.03 inches
I haven't yet tested it for stretch. Has anyone had experience with it? 

Wayne
WB4OGM

On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 12:15:58 PM MDT, <[email protected]> wrote:


Bob,

My 24 gauge portable wires are while and blue. No stripes.

My inverted V dipole at home is 16 gauge purple. It does get noticed.

The inverted V at home is supported in a tree and the ends go to other trees. I affix the ends through the end insulators with tie wraps. If the trees flex or a branch breaks the wire does not break but slips out of the insulator It's gone through a couple of storms with this setup. I've had the ends slip out twice of times but no breakage.

Mike N2MS

> On 09/29/2023 12:51 PM EDT Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi
>
> Why does sliver plated teflon wire get dumped?
>
> This or that design calls for (say) a wiring harness. It has 38 wires in it. Each one is color coded somehow. (No, I didn’t do that design …). Off somebody goes to get enough wire in each of those colors in those gauges to make up the required number of whatever. Call up the “approved vendor”:
>
> (Maybe) then say “We have red, black, and green”. Could be White and black ….
>
> Ok, but I need these 35 other colors.
>
> Minimum order in that color and wire gauge is 5,000 feet. (yes, that’s a real number)
>
> Mumble mumble, go check with the customer. Check around and see what’s what. Eventually somebody signs the paperwork.
>
> Call back later:
>
> Ok, send me what I need.
>
> Ok, we’ll get it out in 16 weeks ( yikes ….)
>
> Net result is that at the end of the program, there’s 2,000 to 4,000 feet of wire sitting around on spools. Some has really weird color combinations. Much of it looks fairly normal (except it’s not red, black, white or green).
>
> Off it goes to the storage cabinet (wish I had pictures … sorry). Eventually it goes to the scrap heap / recycle outfit. Might well be sold by them for the value of the raw copper.
>
> Yes it does make nice portable antenna wire. Purple with yellow and red stripes just adds to the appeal.
>
> Bob
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