AMEN!!!! Same Here!!
Kirby, K7EC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Rowlett" <kc4atu@hotmail.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: 08 July, 2005 14:33
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "Radiates like Crazy"???? No
No he is not wrong. I have had more problems with TVI when using coax.
NEVER
with ladder line or 300ohm twin lead.
kc4atu
From: Curt <k3ey@yahoo.com>
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To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "Radiates like Crazy"???? No
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
I don't care if you do or don't...you're
wrong!!!!!!!!!!
--- Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
> I must respectfully disagree that ladder line
> "radiates like crazy".
>
> It is BALANCED line, that means if it is fed from a
> balanced source and goes
> to a balanced antenna, the currents are equal and
> opposite in each wire and
> their fields cancel within a few diameters of the
> line. See the theory of
> transmission lines in the ARRL Handbooks.
>
> It should cross conductors at right angles, and
> should be twisted every 18
> inches or so, to minimize effects from nearby
> conductors that could
> unbalance it.
>
> If you ever have ladder line "radiating" you are mis
> applying it in some way
> at one end or the other. Balanced antennas are
> center fed beams, dipoles,
> etc. with line brought off at 90 degrees to the
> antenna wires.
>
> Let's bury these old wive's tales about balanced
> parallel transmission
> lines.
>
> Stuart
> K5KVH
>
>
>
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