Go to tractor supply and pick up a spool of galvanized electric fence wire, 17ga. You get a 1/4 mile spool for under $20. You can also get 4" spacers to make your own feedline and a whole host of other things.
Vince.
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On 02/25/2018 12:48 PM, Michael Hagen wrote:
A good source of wire for a dipole is to buy a 250 roll of #14 Stranded
at Home Depot or other building supply.
You can get it by the foot, but a much better deal to get the whole roll
Black or White.
Too start cut 2 - 34' pieces for 40M? You can use PVC pipe fittings to
make center and insulators (also Home Depot).
Don't fall for the copper coated steel wire sold as antenna wire. Yes
it is strong! I snaps up in a mess, trying to go
back in the roll. It is really hard to handle. If you must, it is just
Mig Welding wire, buy a roll at Harbor Freight.
It is cheap and will work.
73's
Mike, WA6ISP
On 2/25/2018 9:34 AM, Jerry Gaffke via Groups.Io wrote:
When we set up a single band wire dipole antenna, it needs to be cut
to the correct length.
This optimal length can vary based on wire diameter, insulation if
any, distance to other objects, ...
So it's usually cut a bit too long, and then "tuned" by measuring the
resonant frequency
and then judiciously trimming the ends a bit.
Though I got by when starting out (no swr meter or network analyzer)
with just a tape measure.
Once set up, you can drive the antenna from your rig without using a
"tuner",
which is a separate piece of gear to match the 50 ohm transceiver to
whatever the antenna happens to be.
Jerry, KE7ER
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 09:15 am, Mark wrote:
I don't need to tune a piece of electrical wire for a single band.
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