[Elecraft] OT: Stupid question about excess ladder line.

[Stuart Rohre]

One can dress the excess feeder over bushes, low tree limbs or most any 
other support method to take up the excess feeder, if you do not want to cut 
it.

However, cutting will in no way create a problem if later you need the cut 
off length restored.   You simply solder, or twist the ends, put a bit of 
tape, or use a terminal strip with screws, or whatever works for you.  The 
usual antenna used with parallel line requires a tuner anyway, thus; you 
simply tune out any minor bump in the line caused by the splicing, with your 
tuner along with the other matching it does to your rig.  The whole works as 
a system to be tuned by the tuner.  Any splice that is a miniscule fraction 
of a wavelength in size will not make an iota of difference in your feedline 
performance!

73, and GL,
Stuart
K5KVH
We regularly dress window line across extra tree limbs taking a circuitous 
route to our station to "use up" excess line length at Field Day.