HFguy wrote:
David wrote:
On 22 Dec 2006 19:08:58 -0800, "RHF"
wrote:



QUESTION - What's Your Opinion "Antenna Wire" : Solid -or- Stranded ?


25 g steel wire from the hardware store is very strong. Braided
chandelier wire is also very nice.

How do you maintain a low resistance connection to steel wire which is
outside in the elements?


Wirenuts with a synthetic grease always worked for me. I"ve seen
solder jobs potted in silicone. There are a number of solutions to that
kind of a problem.

I recently had the opportunity to drive through one of the
neighborhoods of my distant past. I hadn't lived there since 66. The
house was still there, in a about the same shape as we'd left it. The
screen door on the front still had the number plate I'd made in Cub
Scouts...pressed quilted aluminum sheets in natural color with black
cursive digits framed with aluminum scroll.

The owners were gracious enough to give me a brief tour.

It hadn't really been changed much at all.

And hanging under the eave where my bedroom had been was the steel
wire antenna I had used for my Remco crystal set. It has been painted
over a couple of times, but the steel wire, the original plastic
insulators (stamped REMCO), were still there. Apparently in use by one
of the kids in the house.

Memories.


The connection to an outdoor steel wire is a lot less problematic than
it would appear.