[Antennas] Buried window line

2002年12月19日 16:27:20 -0500

Wes, I bought the standard stuff from the Wireman. I think Pres's mouth 
dropped open when I order 1300 feet of the stuff. I don't remember the 
price, but it was a lot cheaper than the equivalent amount of RG-8...and 
a lot lighter. I kept the stuff off the ground by supporting it with 
those plastic (plastic coated aluminum?) garden stakes. I was amazed at 
how well it worked.
73, Joe
Wes (N7WS) and Linda wrote:
>At 11:18 AM 12/19/2002 -0500, Joe Giacobello, K2XX wrote:
>>>>The comments below are interesting and informative, but here's some 
>>additional anecdotal data regarding ladder line. When I moved to my 
>>current QTH, our original house was down in a hollow ("holler" in local 
>>parlance). I knew that there was no way that I was going to get out 
>>down in that hole, surrounded by high hills on all sides. So I put up a 
>>40M EDZ on one of the hilltops. I borrowed some 40 foot temporary 
>>military masts from a friend to hold the ends up and fed it with 1200 
>>feet (That's right-almost a 1/4 mile.) of 16 ga. ladder line. I ran 
>>between 100 and 500 watts on all bands between 80 and 15 using a Viking 
>>MB and got out extremely well, especially 40 meters. Using the graphs 
>>for window line losses in the Handbook, I would estimate the total loss 
>>for the 1200 feet at less than 1 dB. Pretty good!
>>>>>>Sixteen gauge spaced how far? Real open wire or window line?
>>Wes
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