GO BEARCATS wrote:

does the majority of the group 'advise' to use to make up some longires or
dipoles? I've had forever #12 gauge because I had/have three spools of
500ft.on each spool.

Thats fine. You'll hardly ever break that stuff...Most of my dipoles are
#12 house wire, but some are #14 house wire. I've gotten to where I
prefer #14, cuz it's lighter, and still very strong. It's cheaper too..I
had a large iced up tree branch fall on a dipole leg made from #12 a few
years ago..It didn't break the wire. It bent the top section of the mast
over instead. That will tell you how strong it is..

Got it like a year and a half ago at closeout, and I mean 'closeout' -they
should've just gave it to me.;-)

Can't beat that deal...500 ft of #12 was like maybe $34?? or so last I
looked at home depot, which has been a while...

Or would #12 AWG Gauge insulated be better for ground, so what would you use
that gauge wire for and what would you prefer for #1antenna and #2ground.

I don't use a ground to the shack, but if I did, flat copper strap is
the best. Depends on the purpose of the ground also...Flat wide copper
strap is best for lightning grounding. For wire, I'd say the thicker,
the better. You want lots of surface area. All rf flows on the surface
of the wire. "skin effect" And lightning is mainly rf. The bulk of it
about 1-2 mhz, from what I hear. Most recommend a min of #6 wire for
lightning use...What you have is fine just to simply ground a radio...
I've made antennas from nearly every kind of wire, at one time or the
other...Many portable dipoles I made just from junk scraps all tied
together...I've even made dipoles using old junky coax..Anything will
work, as long as you don't use some kind of wire that is overly
resistive as far as rf. MK
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Can't beat that deal...500 ft of #12 was like maybe $34?? or so last I
looked at home depot, which has been a while...

wasn't gonna reply, but seeing how it is the 'Loop Master' ;-) $34?!?! You'll
swear I'm lying or embellishing.

I KNOW it was something like ......I know it was 'under' $10.00 a spool of
500ft. of wire, something $7.** sounds right.

I was with a friend and we saw that, there was four left and I grabbed three of
them, pretty heavy holding three spools of that. Should've got the fourth.

So, that 'was' a steal. :-)


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I don't use a ground to the shack, but if I did, flat copper strap is
the best. Depends on the purpose of the ground also...

OK Mark, lets start with just for receiving, what gauge or just coax and strip
it and use that?

Then how about for txing? Same question.

Thanks Mark! I'm enjoying the loop right now and will later today for the WABC
'special'.:-)

~^Monitoring The Spectrum^~
Hammarlund HQ129X /Heathkit Q Multiplier
Hammarlund HQ140X
Multiple GE P-780's(GREAT BCB Radios)
RCA Victor *Strato- World*
RCA Victor RJC77W-K(Walnut Grain)
1942 Zenith Wave Magnet 6G 601M
Cathedral/ Ross#2311/Rhapsody-MultiBand
DX100/*SUPER-DELUXE Mod- DRIVEN*394/*Modded*398/399/402
OMGS Transistor Eight/Realistic 12-1451
Henry Kloss Model One/Bell+HowellSW
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Alpha Delta DX Sloper 57ft.
500ft. 12AWG. (non-terminated)
120ft. 12 AWG Long-Wire
2 Radio Shack Loop Antennas
Radio Shack Amplified Antenna
30X30 DiamondLoop(six section 830pf Cap)
* Diamond Loop mounted to Lazy Susan TurnTable*
*21/2X2ft.FiveSpoked~Penta-Loop~PancakeLoop*
~OptimusCTR-111Cassettte Recorder~
~Radio Shack 2Speed VOX#43-476~
~Ramsey Speech Scrambler~