Somehow it doesn't seem to matter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.Net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 23:36
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "Radiates like Crazy"???? No
> Curt:
>
> Prove it!
>
> Bob, K4TAX
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curt" <k3ey@yahoo.com>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 1:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "Radiates like Crazy"???? No
>
>
> >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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