In the Caribbean the sun and salt spray gives short life to most wires. I bought on eBay several years ago stranded silver-solder tinned copper wire with a Teflon coating. It doesn't seem to have stretched much and the Teflon coating is holding up very well. I used #14 on 160M and #12 on 80M. Here in NY I use #20 for receive antennas.
So, I guess it depends on your climate what works best and what is the best value. GL. N2TK, Tony -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nels Nelsen Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 1:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Seeking loop Antenna Parts Copper is fine for conductivity but: multistrand copper coated steel is longer lasting. Just remember this when you start trouble shooting strange swr in a couple of years. Copper breaks so easy.Go to the Wireman.com for some good wire. NE7LS On Feb 10, 2016 1:59 AM, "Clay Autery" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 3) 500' nominal, 14 AWG, THHN stranded annealed copper, gray. > > 4) n_n ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
