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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
    http://www.thewireman.com/

    I'm particularly fond of their product #531.
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    Good distributor of Davis RF cable, too...
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
    Any standard 40m dipole should be able to cover the entire band, even if it's made out of #14 wire. 80 & 160 are where you're going to have issues.

    A cage dipole on 80m is what you'd need for increased bandwidth on that band. While, you'll see some improvement with the wire in question, it's still not going to cover the entire band.



    My somewhat lossy 160m vertical (65-foot tall with two 41-foot capacity hat wires and 32 radials) only gives me about half the band, at best. If I have another 32 radials under it, I could probably shrink that to about 50 Khz bandwidth.

    If you get more than 50 Khz with a 160m dipole, up at 50 feet, I'd be surprised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    Hey, that's the prototype for the Stargate.
    ....... and it looks like Chevron 2 is encoded as well
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    Aww Crap! We hired tree cutters to raise the skirts up (cut down lower limbs) on all our trees. One of the workers decided to chainsaw my dacron rope that was holding up my dipole! That antenna survived 5 years with no issues and I had to hire an assassin to kill it. Squirrel fishin' season is in!
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Home Despot, regular old 14 AWG THHN copper wire by the 500 foot spool. Works fine for the most part, although it does stretch over time so if you can find (and afford) multi-strand copper-clad steel wire, that's the way to go.

    Lowes for mine. Home Depot is so far away......

    My most recent antenna (Built for ILQSO Party 10/19/2014) came from a 100 foot roll of #16 speaker wire I accidentally bought on eBay for 12 bucks. It looked like red/black zip cord in the picture and the price was a steal... for zip cord. Worked great for a 40M Portable Dipole and I have 66 feet left! Looks like zip cord in person too!
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