but it was pretty effective and strong too....I never had to deal with open wire spans by the time of my apprecticeship but I think that was very similar physically. ________________________________
but it was pretty effective and strong too....I never had to deal with open wire spans by the time of my apprecticeship but I think that was very similar physically. ________________________________
There was some open wire around when I was a BT (Post Office) apprentice. It was solid copper wire. As I recall, dropwire (steel with a thin copper coating) had a limit to its usable length because i
many thanks to those who replied to my email regarding telephone drop wire. The material I have is not copper coated steel wire - it looks like copper material all through. The conductors are 1mm dia
Sorry, the sentence should have read "This increased the tensile strength of hard drawn copper by 50% from 20 tons psi to 30 tons psi" many thanks to those who replied to my email regarding telephone
Peter, LF, I got mine as scrap from a telephone engineer many years ago. I have used it as twin balanced feeder with a HF trap dipole & an inverted V & worked very well. The drop wire I had only had
Hello Tony, Over the years I have used solid mains wiring wire, the black type. It is quite cheap and available in any DIY store. The trick is to stretch it a bit before hanging it up. After that it
When I have seen this referenced elsewhere the problem mentioned is that the copper coating is extremely thin and soon disappears leaving you with bare steel, not good... Hence, avoid it. Don't you h
Hi Tony The only stupid question is the one that matters and isn’t asked!! I use thin cheap tri-rated wire (approx 2mm) from CEF (City Electrical Factors) http://www.cef.co.uk/ I don’t kn
Hi Tony, the problem with cheapo RG58 is there ain't much screen!! If you have a fair amount of span up it does stretch under its own weight. I have used all sorts of wire. My top wires are very thin
I have been watching this thread with some bewilderment... If the antenna you are putting up is a form of longwire, dipole (shortened I guess..), doublet, G5RV etc then it honestly doesn't matter on
