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/g3kev
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Melia" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: LF: EARTH
> 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" <[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
> >
> > 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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> >
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> >
> > Mobile on my BlackBerry
> >
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