Hi Luke,
No, no stretch in this stuff, I'm using
WD-1A field telephone wire for the wire
and it has a stainless core in each of the
two wires. It's exceedingly tough stuff
and for most intents it's almost
impossible to break.
I am in a few minutes heading out to make
another 129' wire to
What wire have you used for the radiator? Could it have stretched?
Luke VK3HJ
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Hi Guy,
No tower here, can't have one. The
antennas are all wire on or hanging from
trees. The radials are in a forest, not
anywhere I can leafblow them. 1/2 of the
radials are in a tick infested marsh, the
other 1/2 are on the tick infested
bog/woods next to the marsh. I am 15 miles
from
Hi, Gary.
It is not clear from your description exactly how the "sloper" is fed,
where the radials are in relation to the tower, etc.
Quite a few things could be responsible for a change like that.
Not clearing the leaves off the ground over the radials will gradually bury
them and result in a
Unless you have no BC stations for 200 miles distant, making
measurements with an MFJ259 on 160m is going to give you unreliable
readings. The overload threshold on that band is extreemly low.
73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
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On 18-Aug-18 6:10 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
Folks,
I'm starting to get ready for the upcoming
winter frolics on 160. The 160 antenna is
a sloper and I have somewhere around 50 or
so 130' radials pretty much buried under
6-7 years of leaves. When I went to the
remote coax switch & checked the readings
on the sloper with 10' of coax, I
