Well I am anxious to try mine long wire. It is a piece of number 12 insulated strung from one gutter guard up over the roof, around the flue pipe and down into the house. Insulated from the gutter guard and downspouts. I will let you all know how it works. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: William Stephan To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 7:00 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Another Antenna question
Thanks Dale, I'm going to play around with some 14 gauge and see what develops. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 16:17 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Another Antenna question Hi William, I am not the expert that some of the Amateur Radio guys will be however I can tell you that single strand wire is much better as an antenna. Generally too, the thicker the conductor is the wider the bandwidth. So, an antenna of a length designed for a specific band, say cut to the middle of the band will behave better over more of the band if it is a heavier gauge wire. Multiple strand wire tends to create small eddicurrents which interfere with good conduction of the small current created by the electromagnetic field of the transmission. Get yourself a nice long piece of 14 or 12 gauge copper. ----- Original Message ----- From: William Stephan To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:53 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Another Antenna question All: The receiver I recently purchased, which is a Grundig Satellit 750, seems to be mostly accessible. I'm going to ultimately have to get some sighted assistance to figure out the keyboard, but it looks doable. So, I'm going to run some long wire antennas, and was wondering what kind of wire I should be using. I have a roll of speaker wire I could split, but I seem to remember that braded wire is best. Anybody know if that's right? Thanks in advance. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
