Frank: Interesting thought. However, I once had a home made
open wire transmission line and no such occurance ever happened,
even with ice and snow. If conduction was occuring on the spacers
because of water, etc. then the swr would go down, not up. As you
know, water absorbes rf, which heats it. This will cause the
line to act like a dummy load and the swr will go down, not up. This
is a mistake that most amateurs assume, i.e. because
their antenna system has a low swr that everything is ok when just
the opposite may be happening.
- 73-s- Corn - k4own.
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