Until I put up a Diamond 4 element yagi I used a G5RV through a tuner for
about 2 months and worked 30+ grids with 10 watts from a Kenwood TS-660. I
couldn't believe it but when 6 is open you can work stations with anything
short of a well shielded dummy load.
73,
Ken

"an old friend" wrote in message
oups.com...
having lost the support on my 6m beam and haing a turner able to tune a
random wire I have decided totry it

since i don't know I will like it id rather avoid cutting this nice
piece of wire

thinking about unwiding some wire from a 1/2 mile spool anythoungts on
howmuch and what happens if I don't cut it off the spool(just unwind
10ft fifty or whatever leaving one large inducer on the end of the
"antenna