Rik I have not investigated gold v silver but high quality low loss plugs/socket pins are gold plated, if what you say is correct why not silver? mal/g3kev Mal, the conductivity of silver is better t
Mike Silver is ideal and better than copper but in California and possibly Texas they prefer GOLD, listen to those big W6 and W5 signals. I think W6AM had a gold plated rhombic around the mid 50's. T
LF/MF At the average radio amateurs QTH the EARTH is a very variable factor, and no doubt some sort of earth system is desirable, but some get paranoid about their earth wires, rods etc. The importan
Mal, the conductivity of silver is better than that of copper. But the difference is marginal, the main advantage is that silver will not oxidate as much as copper (metal oxides are rather poor condu
Alan I think that was a slip by Mike. He meant solid silver on MF, its all solid gold out West and plenty of it. and over there they get a gallon of petrol for the price of a litre here in the UK mal
Hmmm! That may be so Chris but I never did succeed in getting "her indoors" to allow me to engage her little diamond with a "cat's whisker" to enjoy the harmony of the airwaves. After all, to a radio
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
Hi Mike only if the silver plating is thicker than the skin depth !! At 9kHz this may require solid silver wire :-)) Alan G3NYK but I have lots of wire and lots of time to put them in the ground...hi
I think connector's that are gold plated are done that way because the general public looks at a gold plated item as high quality. If it was tarnished silver plated, then it wouldn't look so pretty.
Ok so I'm not an expert on this but I remember years ago being told that it was not so much the metals concerned but the environment in which they were joined that was important. For instance, one of
Mal and others, Silver does tarnish with time and it's not just cosmetic. We have a couple of LCR meters at work with sliding contacts to take the leads of the components. After some years (probably
