On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote:

> Assuming the heat question was from a safety standpoint, I'd be more
> concerned with corona discharge than heat.
>
> Many attic antennas have very limited attention paid to insulating the
> high-impedance points, assuming the dry wood rafters are adequate. There
> are
> been reports of fires caused by just such assumptions where the high
> impedance end of the wire was near dust and other combustible materials.
>
> Ron AC7AC


Ron I did not realize that heat was a factor in an attic dipole. I lived in
an Apt complex in Lansing, Hich and I ran a 119ft dipole in

> Lansing, Mich. Fed with coax. The antenna wire was insulated #14 wire.


Paul Gates

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