At 10:25 PM 5/6/2007 +0000, you wrote: >William- > >There should ne no scarifice in performance as long as you keep the wire >as straight as possible. I suggest you add as much lenghth as you >possibly can. But, I do have a question about your steep hillside. > Does your wire run up the hillside or down? Ideally, your wire should > run DOWN the slope and not up. Also, what is your location? Good luck. > >-- >Marc DeLorenzo >South Dennis, MA
===================================================================================================== William, Go ahead and string the antenna tree-to-tree. I wrote a piece about doing the same thing back in about 1991. ENCEBE. In the IRCA reprints. As long as the wire maintains a fairly straight route, it loses no directivity. But it must be terminated, and I would recommend driving a four-foot ground rod and using a resistor of about 560 ohms. Fair Radio Sales Co. sells WD-1A/TT "field phone wire" at $45 for 500 feet. This is two-conductor stuff. It tends to have some splices. I split off the wires and splice them end-to-end. What makes WD-1A/TT wire so attractive is its durability. It consists of three strands of steel wire and four strands of copper wire, insulated by a very durable hard plastic. Solder-splicing it is very easy with a 100-watt gun. Tape the splices so they don't contact tree branches. 73, Charles Charles A Taylor, WD4INP Greenville, North Carolina _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
