[Antennas] Buried window line

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 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:
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>>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!
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>Sixteen gauge spaced how far?  Real open wire or window line?
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>Wes
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