[Antennas] " G5RV " TYPE ANTENNA / "CUSHCRAFT MA5V"ANTENNA QUESTIONS

[Chris BONDE]

At 03:10 PM 2002-07-01 -0700, Mark wrote:
>Hmmm . this "twist" stuff is interesting!  Back when .. circa 1967 +/-  .. I
>installed UHF antennas in the Clear Lake, CA region.  The reason the "twist"
>was incorporated was because that hopefully kept the twin lead foam
>insulated twin lead from oscillating/pulsing towards the antenna mast when
>there was a wind.....   worked pretty good .

I thought that was what the twist was for.

 From another report the twist helps in removing outside influences on the 
line or the line influencing itself.  That is why telegraph lines had a 
'twist' every so often.  Power lines (high tension) cross or twist every so 
often between poles.

The wind twist works as well.  Note that truckers put a half twist on their 
tie down straps, stops the slapping.

And another reason that I found is that when having the line come from the 
mast to the eve of the house the twist stopped most of the rain from 
running down the whole line.  In places it ran off the bottom of the twist.

Moral: twist your line.

Chris opr VE7HCB