[Antennas] Thin wire appear thicker.

Tue Dec 5 01:19:10 EST 2006

Sure, parallel by spiral-winding multiple wires together using your
electric drill. You can also space two or more wires like a 1/4 inch apart
to make a faux "thicker" RF wire for wider bandwidth...please note that
the length doesn't have to be so long as with the single strand of the
small diameter wire.
David B.
W7DBH
ckeladis at gmail.com,Internet writes:
>Hi all,
>>I have quite a bit of relatively thin copper wire recovered from some 
>old transformers that i would like to use to construct an antenna.
>>I would like to construct a moxon, and was thinking with this grade of 
>wire (perhaps about 0.1mm diameter, maybe a bit over) the usable 
>bandwidth of the antenna will be quite narrow.
>>I'm thinking of making a few loops with this wire to make it appear 
>thicker than it is, and was wondering if this would be effective (ie 
>using the skin-effect)?
>>I'm thinking of either putting together a moxon or a cubical-quad, i 
>just need to "thicken up" some of this copper wire i have.
>>Would appreciate thoughts/advice from the group.
>>>>>Cheers & 73s,
>>Chris VK2FNET.
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