[mikethedruid]

Actually, Jake, it is not a long wire. I have 250,000 volt TVA power lines running over my pasture not 200 feet from my house. I had to devise an antenna which would minimize the 60 cycle buzz from them. I did it with a vertically oriented antenna. It is made using 1 1/2" PVC piping. I used one 20 foot piece, two T connectors, 2  2 foot pieces, a 6 inch piece, two threaded caps to go into steel mounting brackets, two flat ended caps, two 1 1/2"  #10 brass machine screws with 2 brass flat washers and a nut for each, and a 75 foot roll of solid 18 gauge bell wire. Here is a picture of it. The wire runs from the very top, attached to a screw which runs through the top cap,  inside, down to the area which is covered with black electrical tape, there it comes outside, and is wrapped around the outside in a single layer until the wire is almost used up, just enough left to go down to the bottom screw terminal, where it goes back inside, and then down to that screw. The tape is there to protect the wire from the weather. This winding acts as a loading coil and increases the effective length of the antenna.
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