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[Towertalk] Ground the coax braid on LPDA or not?

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Subject: [Towertalk] Ground the coax braid on LPDA or not?
From: ccc@space.mit.edu (Chuck Counselman)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:31:31 -0500
At 5:04 PM -0500 12/9/02, Chuck O'Neal wrote:
>The reason not to connect the boom to the mast is that the boom, 
>actually a dual boom, on the Tennadyne log periodics "is" the 
>feedline.  Tennadyne use a dual boom as the interconnecting 
>transmission line feeder as well as for mechanical support.

Understood.  If only he'd written "dual boom" or "booms," plural....  :-(

Thanks.  -Chuck, W1HIS

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