I've got a Inverted L antenna that I've used for about the last 18 months
for SW that just broke due to high wind conditions. I typically soldered a
feed line at one end of the 70 feet or so of wire. I've noticed that with
a antenna wire product called Flex-Weave, it claims that you can just tie a
not to an insulator because it was so flexible. I was wondering if I could
just go a few time around the end insulator and utilize the wire as its own
feed in an Inverted L fashion all as one piece of continuous wire without
having to go through the action of soldering a feed line? Hopefully someone
will understand this...please advise. Thanks.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:36:11 GMT, "Joe Guthart"
wrote:

I've got a Inverted L antenna that I've used for about the last 18 months
for SW that just broke due to high wind conditions. I typically soldered a
feed line at one end of the 70 feet or so of wire. I've noticed that with
a antenna wire product called Flex-Weave, it claims that you can just tie a
not to an insulator because it was so flexible. I was wondering if I could
just go a few time around the end insulator and utilize the wire as its own
feed in an Inverted L fashion all as one piece of continuous wire without
having to go through the action of soldering a feed line? Hopefully someone
will understand this...please advise. Thanks.


Yes, you can do that, and it will work just fine. On the other hand,
you can do the same with plain old sranded copperweld, hard-drawn,
or whatever (don't tie a knot, just wrap it a couple of times), and
save some money over the flexweave.

Flexweave seems to be very soft copper - if you do your antenna
with copperweld or hard-drawn, it'll stay up in the air longer.

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