In the past, I have sourced a few of the spools used for retailing fly-fishing line from my neighborhood Orvis. Just asked the sales guy nicely, as we were finishing up with other purchases.
The spools worked nicely with Poly-Steath wire. -- Dan Brown > On Oct 6, 2021, at 00:50, Eric Norris <norrislawfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Use a fly fishing knot on those slippery wires to tie them to a small > insulator. My late friend Neal WA6OCP (SK) used to buy these perfect > spools he called "offshore fishing line spools." They were maybe 8" in > diameter, but very thin--perfect for winding up slick, slinky wire for > temporary QRP antennas. I have no idea where he got them > > > 73 Eric WD6DBM > >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021, 3:34 PM Julia Tuttle <ju...@juliatuttle.net> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm putting together the Elecraft Standard Wire Antenna(tm), two 25-foot >> pieces of 26-gauge wire with relatively slippery insulation. >> >> I've got banana plugs on the near (radio) ends of the wires, and I've >> temporarily got the two lengths coiled and held with velcro cable ties, but >> I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on: >> >> 1. What to put on the far (tree/wherever) ends so I can tie a rope to them >> without the slippery insulation just slipping out of the knot. My >> girlfriend suggests a ring terminal, which seems reasonable -- any other >> ideas? >> 2. How to coil them more securely. W3ATB suggests a chalk line reel ( >> https://w3atb.com/wire-antenna-winder/) but I'm not a fan of the >> termination there. >> >> Thanks and 73, >> >> Julie >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to norrislawfi...@gmail.com >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to daniel.h.br...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
