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What do you mean "maintaining good contact to it"? The copper tape
adheres well & doesn't move. The foil is secured in place by the
packing tape (it completely covers all of the foil surface and copper
tape connections). The tubes propeller a bit in the wind, but I don't
think that causes any disruptive flexing of the foil; at least not
enough to cause the soldered/taped connection to break/discontinue.

I couldn't xmt on 40M cause of the high SWR, but I could rcv &, except
for the noisy conditions, it sounded fine.

Thanks for your comments.
--
MGFoster:::mgf00 at earthlink decimal-point net
Oakland, CA (USA)
KI6OFN

Roy Lewallen wrote:
Aluminum foil is fine for the purpose, electrically, but I think
you'll
have a dickens of the time maintaining good contact to it. You might
even end up creating a rectifying junction which could generate
harmonics when transmitting and intermod when receiving.



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