[R-390] Antenna question

[Richard Loken]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Scott, Barry (Clyde B) wrote:

> 2.  Not familiar with CAT5.  Is it possible to take some good, insulated 
> wire (I have a large spool of 26-ish gauge, stranded, teflon coated wire --
> good quality stuff) and twist my own twisted pair?  Something along the l
> ines of 2 to 4 twists per inch maybe?

Catagory 5 refers to a standard for multi-pair telephone cable: it is 26Ga 
solid wire using the telco's favourite colour code (things like white/blue
paired with blue/white) and it twisted more like 20 twists per inch.  Sounds
like a lot of work to imitate to me...

> > fed with twisted pair. I use twisted pair and even CAT5 cable
> > with multiple dipoles and get excellent results with good zeroing
> > of the antenna tuner on all bands. The twisted pair also has the
> > added (and primary) advantage of making the antenna system
> > immune from noise not detected by the antenna elements, such

Sounds like a great plan.  Just one question: will it handle full output from
my T-368 or will I have to lower the output a bit?  :)
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   Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS  
   Athabasca University
   Athabasca, Alberta Canada
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