[Antennas] Longwire: Are turns around nails bad things?
George, W5YR
[email protected]
2002年5月20日 10:06:01 -0500
If you hadn't told, no one would ever have known, least of all your antenna
. . . <:}
73/72/oo, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 56th year and it just keeps getting better!
QRP-L 1373 NETXQRP 6 SOC 262 COG 8 FPQRP 404 TEN-X 11771 I-LINK 11735
Icom IC-756PRO #02121 Kachina 505 DSP #91900556 Icom IC-765 #02437
Lloyd Lachow wrote:
>> Ok. I strung another 100' or so of wire out of my
> attic, up into the trees, and clipped the end to the
> terminus of my extant longwire in the aforementioned
> attic. However, just before the wire exits the attic,
> I wound a couple of turns each around a couple of
> nails in the wall, to provide an anchor. The wire is
> insulated stranded 14 ga. Will those few turns hurt
> the performance much, or at all? Thanks.