Mark, Assuming copper clad or copper wire, anything above 21 AWG is fine for any freq greater than 160M from a skin effect standpoint. After that it is all about tensile strength vs ductility. Too ductile and it will sag. too brittle and it will part. The first three HF antennas, including my 135' random, I built were made from some 16 G PVC coated copper power wire I had 500' of from an outdoor power run for security cameras. They all worked, but the wire stretches under strain, so about every month I have to pull it tight. Eventually this will make it part. I bought 500' of #14 stranded PVC coated wire from Palomar Engineers because I fell in love with it after using 50' of it on an end-fed coil loaded EmComm antenna I built. Once the outdoor sprinkler power wire parts, I will rebuild the antennas with the PE wire.
Ron KE4DRF On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 2:33 PM Mark Brantana via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there some correlation for transmission power and frequency vs wire > gage required? Or is it essentially all about structural stability? > Mark > N5PRD > > On Dec 15, 2020, at 12:11 PM, john Parmalee via BVARC <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Consider #17 electric fence wire. Take two or three strands and twist > them together with one end clampied in a vice or something and the other > end in the chuck of a hand drill. it will shrink so oversize. > It is chap,Find it at Tractor Supply or on line. > > John Parmalee > [email protected] > 281-380-3811 > K5VGM WI2XLJ > In a message dated 12/14/2020 8:37:10 PM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > This is link to wire I got and I am VERY impressed with these guys for > help. It is stranded and insulated. > > > > https://palomar-engineers.com/tech-support/tech-topics/ferrite-tutorials/search?keyword=antenna%20wire > > > > > > *From:* BVARC <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Rick Hiller via > BVARC > *Sent:* Monday, December 14, 2020 8:13 PM > *To:* BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Rick Hiller <[email protected]>; Mark Janzer <[email protected]>; > KJ Anderson <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [BVARC] Antenna wire? > > > 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 > > ________________________________________________ > 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 > > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org >
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