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My guess is the existing fence wire will couple a bit to the antenna 
wire but possibly just aid the signal. Try it with a shorter wire that 
you already have and see how that works. If the signals are there but 
weak, go with a longer wire. If all seems fare with the longer wire, go 
buy or however obtain the 1k' or so wire and let us know how that does. 
I think it will be just fine with whatever wire you use. As long as the 
existing fence wires don't cross over or go under any powerlines, I 
think your antenna wire will be very low noise. An idea for inexpensive 
wire would be the galvanized fence wire from the farm store. Put out a 
half mile of it and see what happens. It's solderable too.

Mike
WE0H


J. B. Weazle McCreath wrote:
> Hello LFers,
> 
> My farmer neighbour has kindly offered me the use of his fence posts
> to erect a "longwire" receiving antenna.  I could make it well over a
> thousand feet in length and run out of $ for the wire before I ran out
> of fence posts!  Would the close proximity of the fence itself, about
> eight inches below the antenna wire, have any negative effects?
> 
> The fence is the conventional rectangular grid type, with six horizontal
> wires spaced about eight inches apart, and with vertical wires spaced
> about a foot apart.  It's fastened to the wooden posts with staples and
> it appears to be galvanized steel.  There is no intentional grounding of
> the fence, but in many places the lowest horizontal wire does touch
> the ground.
> 
> Any comments or suggestions are most welcome.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL
> Solar and wind powered
> Lowfer " EAR"  188.830
> EN93dr
> 
> http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle