Use the SS. I just finished building a dual band J-Pole 2m/70cm and
used SS. It works just fine. 2m SWR ranges from 1.0:1 to 1.4:1 and I
have had great success hitting distant (40 miles) repeaters on ~5w at
only 20' AGL at my location, but about 5' BELOW average ground level
for the entire city... Go figure, I bought the place in the bottom of
the hole!





On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:03:58 GMT, "Jimmie" Gfender@carolina
dot.rr.dot com wrote:

I want to make a 2m Yagi out of stainless steel, partly because of the
corrosion resistance but mostly because I have the materials on hand. Some
of my friends have tried to tell me that the higher ohmic resistance of SS
will make for a poor antenna. Frankly I do see that it would make any
significant difference. While SS has several times the resistance of AL I
figure we are just comparing micro ohms to milliohms.at worst, probably more
like micro ohm to tens of micro ohms. I am a correct on these assumptions or
should I listen to my friends.