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From: Lynn H. Ogden (no email)
Date: Wed May 16 2007 - 23:44:46 EDT
I've been following this thread. How about a boat with only a short wave receiver? What is -A Best - antenna for that boat.
"A sailor travels to many lands,
To anyplace he pleases.
And he always remembers to wash his hands,
So he don't catch no diseases."
Pee Wee Herman
----- Original Message -----
From: David
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:29 PM
Subject: [SPAM] [world-cruising] Re: ssb antennas....
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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