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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's the center of this copper wire even for, anyway? I'm going around the edges.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

True that. I was amazed how many hundreds of amps I could dump into an aluminum foil antenna at high frequency.

Just aluminum foil around PVC is practically as good as solid aluminum pipe.