When I designed mine maybe 20 years ago, I did consider using something like phone cable and ribbon cable, but there was a good performance reason for using the heavier wire. Sadly I can't recall why right now.
FWIW, -John =============== > In message <[email protected]>, "J. > Fors > ter" writes: > >>Before I got the cannonical antenna for my Austron LORAN Rx, I used a >>roughly 30" square of 3/4" Cu tubing threaded with a bunch of #18 >>insulated hookup wire. The slick glop electricians use helped a lot. What >>a mess though. > > Telephone cable i neat for big loop-antennas: You get the shield, > and up to 1000 colorcoded and patchable wires all ready to go, all > you need to do is patch them together with an offset of one. > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
