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[TowerTalk] Field telephone wire for radials

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Field telephone wire for radials
From: Gene Smar via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Gene Smar <ersmar@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 18:27:23 -0500
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TT:

     I recently purchased a quantity - actually, a kilometer - of
two-conductor Army field telephone wire.  I intend to use some/much of this
wire to augment the half-dozen radial wires I now have surrounding my
shunt-fed tower for 160M.  

     In your experience, would it be better to split the cable into two
conductors (it's thin wire, maybe 22 AWG) and lay each in a slit in the
grass separately, or should I keep the conductors intact, lay them as a
single radial, then solder the wires together at the ends? I have plenty of
wire to do either.

     Thanks for your advice.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F




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