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From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
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Hi Mike only if the silver plating is thicker than the skin depth !! At 9kHz
this may require solid silver wire :-))

Alan G3NYK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WE0H-Mike" <we0h@gmx.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: LF: EARTH


> I run 11,100 feet of radials for my HF and 600m antennas. It works great
but I have lots of wire and lots of time to put them in the ground...hi hi
>
> As Mal said, using a good antenna and a few radials will work good. Use a
poor antenna and many radials and expect a compromise performance.
>
> I have been finding that using silver plated Teflon insulated wire for my
antennas and any coils, that my antennas seem to radiate well. I think the
silver plating has a lower A/C resistance than copper which lowers the wire
losses.
>
> Mike
> WE0H
> WD2XSH/16
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> Mobile on  my BlackBerry
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