[Antennas] Buried window line

[Wes (N7WS) and Linda]

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