The diameter of the wire will affect the bandwidth. Ohms law works in terms of IR loss. I recall seeing a picture of an eighty meter antenna at W1AW that was several wires held apart to get enough bandwidth to cover 80. #14 is a good place to start or strands wound as below, 73John [email protected] K5VGM WI2XLJ In a message dated 12/20/2020 2:33:54 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Is there some correlation for transmission power and frequency vs wire Gage required? Or is it essentially all about structural stability?MarkN5PRDOn 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 [email protected] K5VGM WI2XLJIn 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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