If anyone has any feedback building & using one of those "horse fence" antennas, please let me know...looks fairly easy to build and install....
Thanks -
If anyone has any feedback building & using one of those "horse fence" antennas, please let me know...looks fairly easy to build and install....
Thanks -
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.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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.
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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.
Jeeze, can't any of you guys at least try Googling "Horse Fence Antenna?" Try the third result from the top.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Aint got time. I'm too busy trying to find out what the fuck sanquine means. (Thanks Albi)Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
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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.
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Having some of this stuff up as horse fence, I can catagorically state that it makes no difference. It blows around no matter what.
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
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