On Oct 11, 2:14 am, Evan Gatehouse
wrote:
Never seen this discussed befo

Could I use thin stainless steel foil instead of copper foil in the
bilge as a ground for a long wire (backstay antenna) ham radio setup?

Evan Gatehouse

Silver would work best. Stainless if alwful. A world leading antenna
designer says stainless loses HF attenuation faster then just about
any other metal as the signal follows the outside of the surface
unlike electricity, and the corrision(micro) coating on stainless is
the worst at conducting HF waves. He's running a silver wire thats
teflon coated mil spec stuff the length of my backstays. He said I
will have 3X's the ability of the typical SS backstay set-up. And BTW
tarnished silver is the best, even better than gold.

Joe