On 1 Aug,
Owen Duffy wrote:

"Sal" wrote in :

I have two 20m dipoles hanging, one with a span line and one
free-hanging. They were both temporary ... last year.

Sal, there would be those who would chide you that such an antenna
obviously wasn't big enough... in the sense that "if it didn't blow down
last season, it wasn't big enough".

And we wonder why so many housing block have restictive covenants that are
not ham friendly. We might just have bought that on ourselves to some
extent.

At one time I was working JA from yhe UK using a long wire (about 40m) of 30
swg and 100w. It didn't blow down. however it was only up for a week as a
stealth ant. currently my long wire is 1mm enameled wire, to be less
vu=isibly intrusive (and at current copper prices cheaper) than the
recommended 14 swg (12 awg).

This replaces one which failed a couple of years ago constructed with
thin insulated 5A lighting flex not much more than bell wire that had been up
nearly 30 years.

It's better using a non optimal stealth ant than none at all!

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