[Lowfer] LF Travail II

[Peter Barick]

J.B.,
Good Guess! But no. I was dissuaded by John A. when I got the CAT-5 thought too. Have a collection of it from variuos cast-offs. But John (or was it Jay?) warned of the stray couplings in such cable. Made sense. So digging further I came upon intercom twisted pair, two no. 18. Had both shielded and non-. Used the plain stuff. Knew then it would have to be treated as a proper trasn. line, ie, no lieing on the ground, so I ran out a poly line that just barely clips my head when underneath.

Fine on your cable co. One of mine has been feeding a dumpster with used 75-Ohm cable -- N/C.
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>>> "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle at hurontel.on.ca> 12/07/08 10:05 AM >>>
Hello Peter, Lowfers,

>Hopefully this is my last bark under this rubric.  But another screw-up
came
>to light yesterday.  Lesson learned hard way: "A short-terminated twisted
>pair feedline is still a feedline, no way an antenna."

Would this twisted pair have been some Cat5 ?  I tried using some on my big
untuned delta loop,  (just 1 of the 4 pairs) but I found that I had better
signal
strength with the RG-6U CATV cable that was already in place.

I buy my RG-6U from the local cable company, who tend to regard lengths
of less than 200 feet as "waste".  At $0.20/ft. for 100% shielded and self-
healing if nicked, it's a feedline that's cheap and effective.

73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL
Solar and wind powered
Lowfer " EAR"  188.830
EN93dr

http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle


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