Ralph Mowery wrote:
The antennas for the low bands are usually not SS.

In one of the CA 75m mobile shootouts, Wally, WA6JPR, entered
a bugcatcher with an SS Fortex Coil. It was 4 dB down from
his copper loading coil (no hat) and 6.5 dB down from the top
rated screwdriver (with hat). Of course, most stingers on HF
mobile antennas are SS and are located at the high voltage -
low current end of the mobile antenna.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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"Jimmie" Gfender@carolina dot.rr.dot com wrote in message
. com...
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.



Jimmie

How much power can you produce at 2 meters?? If you or your friends can
put enough power into a stainless steel dipole, you can get a pretty good
idea of the power its disipating by monitoring its temperature rise.
It might be interesting to ask your friends for any of the data they have
for determining their advice to *not* use stainless. They could be right.
But, sometimes inaccurate rumors get spread and get intermingled with truth.

Jerry