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From: David (no email)
Date: Wed May 16 2007 - 21:29:46 EDT
My two cents...
I decided against the installation of insulators within the backstay
of my old boat, Emma. Instead, I opted for a piece of rigging wire
shoved up the inside of a piece of single-braid technora (Chinese
fingercuff style). The wire terminated about .5 meters from the
truck, and about 2 meters above deck. A spare turnbuckle brought up
the slack. Worked beautiful, but I also spent considerable effort on
clean connections and a large counterpoise.
I often wondered if I could further improve performance with a copper
wire inside the technora rather than stainless, and I tend to agree
with Susan regarding this matter. Coppa mo betta. Next time...
Incidently, I decided to throw out my spare length of rigging wire in
favor of a small coil of light technora. One can sometimes find a
sufficient length at a substantial discount if it came off of the end
of the spool. Mine was free.
73
DC
KD7IXK
--- In , "Carl Bostek"
<sv dot aphrodite at dot dot dot > wrote:
>
> RF travels on the surface of a conductor, so this is right:
>
>
> " I suspect the copper clad steel used by the military, if that is
the case,
> adds strength while retaining the surface conductivity. "
>
> The ARRL antenna handbook has good info, from basic to advanced.
http://www.arrl.org/
> search/?exp=1&q=antenna&x=0&y=0
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl
> WB7NCV
>
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