I’d lean toward insulated. Keeps inter-strand noise at a minimum. 135 feet—- 14 awg stranded at min. Alpha Delta uses 14 solid for their fan dipoles. So either way works, depending on how it is deployed. Wireman, DX Eng and others. GL. Rick. RH
Sent from my i-Thingamajig > On Dec 14, 2020, at 7:31 PM, Mark Janzer via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Check out: > > https://thewireman.com/product-category/antenna-materials/antenna-wire/ > > Flex weave is nice. > >> On Dec 14, 2020, at 4:31 PM, KJ Anderson via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I need input. I want to build an additional 40M EFHW, I’m wondering if the >> group has input or guidance on the best kind of wire to use for the long >> wire? It appears that the antenna manufacturers are happy to sell me >> “high-grade antenna wire” that is nothing more than regular 14AWG wire I >> could get literally anywhere for much less; my question is- has anyone tried >> anything more exotic? Is there a flavor of wire that works better/worse for >> antennas? >> >> I appreciate you all. >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> 73 de KJ5EMP >> [email protected] >> KJ in Cypress >> >> ________________________________________________ >> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club >> >> BVARC mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
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