Hi Jack

I made a dipole using the smaller sized slinky's and it worked about
the same as my other dipoles made of wire, but was a little shorter.

I just stretched a nylon line across the yard, fed through the
slinky's. Used a PVC T-fitting between them and for the coax strain.
Tied another small nylon line to the slinky at one end and permanently
affixed the slinky at the other end. The loose end of the pulling
line came into the shack through a window and I tied knots in the line
to mark the tuned point of each band I worked. I used it quite
successfully on 80, 40 & 20 meters. It did pick up more noise than a
wire dipole does. But transmitted and received signal strengths were
about the same.

TTUL
Gary

A hf antenna that'l walk down stairs.
KC*VIF
Greg Z
to thine own sound be true

There is another type of slinky antenna - Slinky Beverage, made out of bunch of
slinkies (5 - 7) and stretched like a Beverage or Wave Antenna. Works well too
in limited space. Check TopBand reflector archives if interested.

Yuri, K3BU