[Elecraft] OT: Ladder Line Spacers

[Tom W8JI]

The dissipation factor of Nylon is about two orders of 
magnitude greater than polyethylene and the UV resistance is 
horrible.

Wes N7Ws>>

None of that may matter because the electric field strength 
in the insulator is probably low and almost all nylon has UV 
inhibitors now.

The rope I use for antennas is nylon and it lasts a very 
long time in the Georgia sun.

You have to look at the material characteristics of the 
particular nylon material for UV life, and the end 
application for dissipation factor problems. Even 100 times 
nothing might still be considered nothing.

73 Tom