The Rod of WHO???

[Gordon Gekko]

Ha! Thanks man. Ill be taking some pro pics of it before it leaves for its new home. The pic above was still at the machine shop and wasnt even together yet.

Here's a silly question, the stinger...copper or SS? Would be pretty cool if it were copper! I wonder if there would be any appreciable performance difference between the two stingers?

[noisemaker]

Well heres the silly answer. Yes its copper. 3/8 solid copper with a 1" solid copper carona. Its sick dude!

[noisemaker]

thats the top of the stinger with carona

[noisemaker]

A few more pics

[noisemaker]

It makes my dog look small- hes an 80lb lab/pit mix

[skyhawktexas]

Careful, with the price of scrap a crackhead may run away with it.

LMAO...... I had a name for it before he started.... something along the line of CAA (Crackhead Attention Antenna)

On a more serious note though I remember reading that stainless steel has 51 or 53x the resistance to current flow than copper. It was an article about radio antennae on WWII planes. SS wire was chosen because it holds up better to the stresses of flight (ice, wind,vibration, etc...), kinda like a 102" whip? Since the antenna is thousands of feet in the air that kind of loss isn't isn't much of a factor. Hell you could most likely transmit on a paperclip at 15,000' and be heard loud and proud.

Another interesting fact is that all oxides of copper are conductive as opposed to aluminum oxides which are resistive, so cleaning a copper antenna isn't critical to its performance. But it shines up nice. Perhaps buff it then coat it in lacquer? It is an insulator but a thin coating shouldn't affect performance too much.

Given the above 2 facts its no wonder that Noisy can near better on that vertical crackhead copper mine!

I saw another poster talk about silver, because of the skin effect if that antenna were to be electroplated it would be a sharp looking performer!

Copper also has more current carrying capacity for given diameter. But given the diameter I think the center insulator would give out before you reached the limits of the antenna.

Lastly a silver plated hollow version would be the best of both worlds, watch out for trees though.

That's just my two cents.

Crackhead jokes aside its an impressive piece of work.

Hence the other metal...... Would be the werewolf killer. Maybe later on down the road... I may contact him if he would be interested in doing a solid silver (Proof) antenna.... (Werewolf killer)... But due to just coming back from NWC break (I drove there) I done have spent 5800 + going there, motels, etc etc etc... So may be a couple months....

[noisemaker]

Hahahahahahaha

[Gordon Gekko]

thats the top of the stinger with carona

that's awesome!

[High Voltage Mobile NJ]

very nice piece of Art Work Noisemaker !

[BOOTY MONSTER]

gold has less resistance than copper or silver or aluminum . the old gold penetrator didn't perform better than the aluminum ones ...... if they did every antenna sold today would be electroplated in gold .
there's a different reason for your RX differences other than the copper material .