[Elecraft] Balun with a G5RV?

[Charles Greene]

At 04:58 PM 4/21/2002 -0700, Vic Rosenthal wrote:

>I've often thought about cutting out every other chunk of plastic from ladder
>line to reduce the loss and also to reduce the effect of moisture on it (I 
>used
>to have to retune whenever it rained -- some guys wax their line because of
>this).  Anyone ever try this?
>
>73,
>Vic,


When I first got my license a lot of hams were using TV 300 ohm twin lead 
for feed line, and for folded dipole antennas.  When it rained, the loss in 
the 300 ohm twin lead went up.  One trick we learned was to coat the twin 
lead with bacon grease.  Not that I would recommend it today, but it helped.



73, Chas, W1CG