[PVRCNC] Ladder Line Insulators

[Nathan Moreschi]

That is correct...$35 for a pack to build 100 feet...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Olinger K2AV" <olinger at bellsouth.net>
To: "Nathan Moreschi" <n4ydu at yahoo.com>
Cc: "pvrcnc" <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [PVRCNC] Ladder Line Insulators


>I think the way he works that is that the 35 buck bag is enough to do
> 100 feet of open wire at 18 inch spacing, or 67 spreaders in the bag.
>
> The 35 buck bag can do the 40/40/40 counterpoise described at the club
> meeting.  It will also barely do a 33/33 in-line 3 wire 2 wire version
> not presented, which requires a series inductor to tune out reactance
> against a 1/4 wave L.
>
> 73, Guy.
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Nathan Moreschi <n4ydu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Standard YDU mishap with math...get all the way to last step and blow the
>> simple calculation...classic problem of mine in college physics and
>> calculus...
>>
>> 100 spreaders at 18 inches is 150 feet..thanks to QPL for the 
>> correction...
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Nate/N4YDU
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nathan Moreschi" <n4ydu at yahoo.com>
>> To: "pvrcnc" <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:00 PM
>> Subject: [PVRCNC] Ladder Line Insulators
>>
>>
>>> Gents,
>>>
>>> At the last PVRCNC meeting there was a discussion about homebrew
>>> ladderline. The use of "Ladder Snap" came up and where to find it.
>>>
>>> Looks like about $35 for 100. Assuming 18 inch spacing, that's about 75
>>> feet worth...not too bad. K2AV and W0UCE made some really nice 600 ohm
>>> stuff with bare solid wire (copper?) for the counterpoise system for a
>>> 160M antenna that was discussed at the meeting.
>>>
>>> Here is the link:
>>>
>>> http://www.73cnc.com/73cnc/laddersnap.html
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Nate/N4YDU
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