[R-390] SWL antenna - field telephone wire.

[Transmaster]

That is true, another thing that might be worth trying for a stealth
antenna is bronze MIG welding wire.once you get this stuff up in the
air is just about disappears.  If you want to increase it's size run
as many strands as you like and use a cordless drill to wind it up.

                                       W7ITC

On 11/8/06, Barry Williams <ba.williams at charter.net> wrote:
> That would be WD-1 wire.
>
> You can also get cheap wire by the spool at farm supply shops. They
> sometimes stock a lot of wire. Some is uninsulated for long runs of
> electric fences.
>
>
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> > On 8 Nov 2006 at 11:22, Transmaster wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Now I have a question;  Has anyone out there used field telephone wire
> >> for antenna wire? I am looking at this stuff it is cheap. the
> >> conductors are some kind of steel.
> >>
> >
> > Unless the specs have been changed since I was in the Army in 1960,
> > the wire is made up of a certain number of strands of steel and and a
> > certain number of strands of tinned copper. The steel is to give it
> > strength, and the copper is to lower the resistance.
> >
> > The way we used to determine which of the strands were steel and
> > which were copper when we wanted to make a splice was to strip about
> > an inch of insulation off an end, then brush a finger across the tops of
> > the wires: those that were copper would bend, while the steel ones
> > wouldn't.
> >
> > We would make our splices with the copper ones, as I remember it. I
> > can't remember what we did with the steel ones. That was 40 years
> > ago.
> >
> > The copper solders easily, but the steel wires are "difficult".
> >
> >
> >>  It isn't the easiest stuff to work
> >> with but I have seen this stuff in the field that has been in use for
> >> decades. You can get this wire in mile long spools for a really cheap
> >> price.
> >>
> >
> > It makes excellent, non-stretching, antenna wire, but is somewhat
> > difficult to work with, as you say.
> >
> > Ken W7EKB
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