[600MRG] Fwd: Paralleling Wires in Antennas

[William E. Isakson]

Frank, while stainless steel does not have an apparent reaction to a
magnet, it is, in fact, ferrimagnetic (ferri, not ferro)and there will be
hysteresis losses involved.   I think I would not use stainless steel for
antenna wire.
Bill

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Bill Isakson     AC6QV
Roseburg, Oregon USA
bill.isakson at gmail.com



On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Frank Lotito <k3dz at live.com> wrote:

> A question about paralleling two conductors to use an antenna mast guy
> wire as a dipole (or as part of another type of wire antenna) - For
> example, using a stranded stainless steel guy wire with appropriate
> insulators and cable clamps to construct a sloping dipole.  If the
> stainless wire is paralleled with a stranded or solid conductor copper wire
> will the resulting dipole antenna have less loss than using just the
> stainless steel guy wire as the dipole (or as part of another type of wire
> antenna?)  If yes, how much less, e.g. was it really worth the effort to
> parallel the 2 different wires?  I would think that at LF and MF
> application (where the guy is part of some type of wire antenna) its "six
> in one, half a dozen in the other."  Maybe not so for HiFER (22 meter)
> application where the guy can definitely accommodate a full size dipole or
> possibly even an extended center fed zepp... ?
>
> Could the paralleled wire approach have application where a "small in
> comparison to wavelength triangular shaped one-turn loop antenna" is
> constructed for VLF / LF / MF by using 2 guy wires. Since small loops are
> quite inefficient (their radiation resistance is far smaller than their RF
> resistive loss), could the paralleled stainless / copper wire approach be
> used as a means to improve VLF / LF / MF loop antenna efficiency?
>
> Oh, let me qualify, when I said parallel wires I meant the two wires are
> in intimate contact, maybe by clamping them together every few feet, or
> using a spiral pitch of a few feet where the copper is spiraled around the
> stainless steel guy cable.  And I don't mean "copperweld."
>
> 73 Frank K3DZ / WH2XHA
>
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