I terminate my ladder line with banana plugs. I have a basement window pane
made with plexiglass and banana jacks spaced 3" in it with a foot of
ladderline from them to my tuner. Outside when I'm not operating I simply
pull the line out of the jacks and away from the house. This has worked
for several years. I have my Inverted L wire terminated in a banana plug
and I plug it into the center of a UHF coax jack out at the feedpoint when I
want to operate on 160 m. When I am QRT and away from the shack I unplug
it and pull it away from the coax jack which is bonded to the radial plate.
These banana plugs have worked fine up to full output from my Centurion.
If a storm gets within 100 miles and I'm operating I quit anyway because the
QRN is so nasty I'd rather do something else and not have the trouble of
filing an insurance claim. And my gear isn't made anymore and there's
nothing out there new that I want!
73,
rob / k5uj
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