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Re: LF: EARTH

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Subject: Re: LF: EARTH
From: "mal hamilton" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:47:36 +0100
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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. The heyday of amateur radio before
the appliance operator appeared.
Nice to hear from you

de mal/g3kev

----- Original Message -----
From: "WE0H-Mike" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Mike
> WE0H
> WD2XSH/16
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> Mobile on  my BlackBerry
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