Re: [TenTec] Open-Wire Feeders

["Allan H. Kaplan" <w1ael@mindspring.com>]

Catfish wrote: ..."the wider the space the better",
but I urge a more moderate approach.   Getting the lines more than a few 
electrical degrees apart will allow them to radiate some of the power we 
would like to transmit to the antenna.   Art Collins held his 
engineering staff to a very demanding tolerance of  one electrical 
degree -- about an inch at 30 MHz..   I believe that a 3 to 6 inch 
spacing is reasonable.   I use line supplied by W7FG, spaced at about 4 
inches.  It has held up well in the hills of east Tennessee.  73, Allan 
W1AEL.