just make sure you get galvanized chicken wire as the moisture from the 
ground will rust it.
You can probably get plastic coated chicken wire, and this would work fine 
as long as you strip the plastic back where you connect a hookup wire to the 
antenna.
that said, I really can't see how a 100FT roll of 18 or 22 gage speaker wire 
from radio shack can be less expensive than all that chicken wire...
On a 100 foot roll, you get two hundred feet if you unzip the wire...that 
will be plenty...i think i've seen a roll like that for less than $10.
go to a hire gage, like 16 or 14 gage for better results and you really 
won't spend that much more.
73
Colin, V A6BKX

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Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:15 PM
Subject: radials


> Boy, copper wire is expenssive.  Thinking really hard about getting a few 
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> eet of copper just to make some short radials and getting a roll of 
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> wire.  I can put 3 feet by 20 feet on one side and probably close to that 
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> on the other.  in front of the antenna I can get probably 3 feet by 5 and 
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> bout the same in the back.  I even thought about making some frames with 
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> od or pvc pipe so that I can pick them up for grass cutting.  If I make 
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> frames and have the wire on the under side it would be easy to pick up.
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