[Elecraft] KAT 500 and open wire

[Walter Underwood]

A pre-publication copy of the N7WS QST article from 1999.

http://k6mhe.com/n7ws/Ladder_Line.pdf

Independent verification of the N7WS experiments, with some nice graphs showing loss when dry, with rainwater, and with frost. The results are fairly similar.

http://www.karinya.net/g3txq/wet_ll/

wunder
Walter Underwood
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http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)

> On Jan 7, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/7/2019 8:39 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>> Even low loss ladder line can have significant loss, especially when wet.
> 
> N7WS is the guy who did that research and published it several decades ago. It's in one of those excellent ARRL Antenna Compendiums.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
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