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K7JJP
10-18-2011, 10:22 PM
If anyone has any feedback building & using one of those "horse fence" antennas, please let me know...looks fairly easy to build and install....:ugh:

Thanks -
NQ6U
10-18-2011, 10:43 PM
Step 1: Disconnect fence charger unit...

Seriously, from what I gather, they are pretty much just a standard dipole antenna using some of that electric fence ribbon in place of the usual wires. It shouldn't be hard to duplicate.
W5GA
10-19-2011, 09:10 AM
Should work pretty good as a beverage if it's long enough. I wouldn't want to xmit through it if you have livestock. Big difference between a shock telling the animal to stay off the fence, and an RF burn.
kb2vxa
10-19-2011, 12:55 PM
From RF stick welders to RF branding irons, Thermatron is a step ahead.
KG4CGC
10-19-2011, 01:01 PM
Are we talking about miles of established fencing? Two ways to go I say, counterpoise with a resonant main element or electrically divided the fence and run the world's biggest dipole.
I would also be curious as to the receive performance on LW: LF/VLF.
NQ6U
10-19-2011, 07:40 PM
Jeeze, can't any of you guys at least try Googling "Horse Fence Antenna (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=horse+fence+antenna)?" Try the third result from the top.
K7SGJ
10-19-2011, 07:52 PM
Jeeze, can't any of you guys at least try Googling "Horse Fence Antenna (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=horse+fence+antenna)?" Try the third result from the top.

Aint got time. I'm too busy trying to find out what the fuck sanquine means. (Thanks Albi)
KG4CGC
10-19-2011, 08:22 PM
Jeeze, can't any of you guys at least try Googling "Horse Fence Antenna (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=horse+fence+antenna)?" Try the third result from the top.http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?189226-Horse-fence-for-antenna
WØTKX
10-19-2011, 11:36 PM
http://kf4bwg.com/ There seems to be two kinds of horse fencing of interest.

The flat braid with wires, and a round one called Electrobraid. 600' of black Electrobraid is $110.00 from Tractor Supply.

The round stuff has two strands of copper in an open helix braid woven into a poly sheath that is like a sock woven over a poly rope core. The flat stuff is 3 or four conductor. I would think an antenna like this would be strong, and maybe a little heavy.

The rhetoric for the flat one is it is broad banded, which makes sense.
Dunno about the round stuff, but I expect it might be as well...

I bet the flat stuff should be twisted just like ladder line so it doesnt blow around in the wind.
W5GA
10-20-2011, 07:14 AM
I bet the flat stuff should be twisted just like ladder line so it doesnt blow around in the wind.
Having some of this stuff up as horse fence, I can catagorically state that it makes no difference. It blows around no matter what.
n2ize
10-21-2011, 09:44 PM
I used to enjoy transmitting and holding a flourescent tube parallel to one of the legs of my inverted vee. People used to freak out when the lamp would light up bright.
n2ize
10-21-2011, 09:46 PM
Having some of this stuff up as horse fence, I can catagorically state that it makes no difference. It blows around no matter what.

tell me about it. I have about 50 feet of ladder line forever tangled up 75-80 feet in the very tops of my tallest trees It blew way up there in the Nor'easter of 2009.