MS135 SuperWire Stealth Bulk 135 feet Wire #18 Stranded ham Radio Amateur PTFE

This is good fine gauge antenna wire. Tough and durable yet easy to work with. I have it in the air on EFHW and EFRW antennas. It is nearly invisible against my woodsy background and so keeps nosy neighbors out of my hobby.

I've now made two antennas with this and it does great. Of course it'll only do as well as your antenna build is, but once it's up in the air it disappears pretty well. It's just the right length for a 80m EFHW, or a 40m skywave loop which is what I have over my house.

Really nice to work with. The ONLY way they could improve this wire would be with a matte anti-reflective jacket instead of the nice glossy black PTFE that catches the sunlight. That said, once it's been up for a couple of weeks it seems to dull a bit as dust and rain take care of the shiny jacket. It doesn't deteriorate, just collects some dust or pollen and gets less noticeable. I have this running through the back yard from the feed point into the trees; even though I know where the wire is I have a hard time spotting it.

Nice antenna wire, works well up to 100w (max I can put out). When wrapped on a winder, it does tangle (as most wires do). Easy to work with and great for antenna projects.

I bought a pack of this wire with the intention of building two nested vertical full-wave delta loops for 20 meters and 15 meters, in my tiny back yard and using the same 30-foot fiberglass center pole. There was more than enough for both loop antennas each fed a short way up one vertical side.It is barely visible, making the central pole appear like a lightweight flagpole to the neighborhood. Each loop performs well with excellent matching to 75 ohm coax with a ferrite line isolator and each easily tolerates 100 watts fed into it. Makes global FT8 contacts easy, mostly on 10 watts from a G90. Love this wire!

My first use of this was for an AM radio reception as my radio is in the basement (CCrane 3).I exited the basement through a conduit sleeve that was otherwise unused. I took the far end, wrapped it over a piece of wood, and tossed it up into a tree. The other end snaked back into the basement and attached to the radio's AM antenna screw connection. As an aside, my AM radio has a ground connection which also needed to be established, I simply attached that to a metal electrical surface mounted box.With both the ground and this wire I have *a lot* of AM radio stations. Like I think I literally have every single one now, it's impressive!The wire is hard to see. Time will tell just how tough it is. My install is a little jenky as the tree can move around pulling on the wire, so I need to put enough slack in to make that a non issue.

I am definitely surprised with the quality and strength of this wire. I am using it as-is (not trimmed at all) with a 49:1 unun and it makes a perfect 80M end fed half wave, resonant without tuning on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meter bands. It has been through a few very strong wind storms already without breaking, and since it's a lot lighter than my previous wire (14AWG marine wire) it sags a lot less and of course is much less visible.$50 is a little expensive for 135ft, but the fact that it's high quality and pre-cut to the perfect length makes it worth it for me.

Bought this to make an EFLW HF antenna for POTA & I'm very pleased. It is indeed end-fed, and long, in addition to being wire. I teamed it up with a 9:1 UNUN & a wire winder. Used some pvc conduit I cut into 1/4" rings for insulators, & I chuck it it a tree to talk to strangers in strange places, from equally strange places. If your plan is to do the same, be sure to get a large enough wire winder. Once it's all wrapped up for storage it gets bulky. Can easily handle my 20watt output, I think it will handle 100w as well if needed. I'd try it out but my yard's not as long as this wire, so it'd be kinda goofy.Good luck, happy pota hunting or field-daying, or just trekking about & deciding to play radio.