From:
Fred Hopengarten K1VR 617/259-0088
Six Willarch Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
permanent e-mail address: fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:33:53 +0900 Tom Osborne <w7why@mail.coos.or.us>
writes:
>I'm in the midst of putting up an antenna for WARC bands. I'm making
>a
>130 foot dipole with tuned feeders. In reading about the feedline it
>stated that the foam 300 ohm solid ribbon is not that good to use
>because when it gets wet the SWR changes. Is that a problem other
>than
>the fact that I may have to adjust the tuner a bit to get the SWR back
>down?
Been there, done that. That's the only problem I've ever noticed. If
you have the time, 450 ohm available from Radio Ware at a reasonable
price. Also works fine and a little less vulnerable to weather changes
in SWR. But retuning is not really difficult. -- Fred
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