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Strioed wrote:
"Someone told me it would not amount to much in ham use." It`s how long te elements need to be that determines the loss stainless steel adds to an antenna. For VHF, stainless is fine. For HF, you may be creating a combination antenna and dummy load by using stainless in place of aluminum or copper. You can imitate what is usual commerciall practice for an amateur antenna at similar frequencies. There are gold-plated antennas, but this isn`t usual practice. It is extreme and certainly so for VHF. Some of the best antennas used at VHF have long been stainless steel. The big problem is stainless steel hardware which galls and binds. There is bound to be an anti-sieze preparation to mitigate this bind. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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