[TenTec] Openwire Feed and Transformer

Mike Gorniak mgorniak at genesiswireless.us
Wed Oct 5 14:10:32 EDT 2005


Hey Lee,

Out of curiosity, would you happen to know what frequency bands your friend uses, and what the design particulars are for the broad band transformers? 

That could be good information to have!

Thanks!

Mike 
NM7X



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Crocker" <w9oy at yahoo.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 7:41 AM Subject: [TenTec] 

> For completeness of this thread, I checked with a
>> friend of mine who runs 1000ft of openwire line from
>> his house out to his antenna farm.  The line is
>> terminated by broad band trandformers at each end.  He
>> uses this as a low loss condiut rather than trying to
>> run a thousand feet of coax with its inherent loss,
>> and he uses it to feed his beams etc.  He does not
>> twist, and notices no problem with balance.  The line
>> has very good isolation.  
>> 
>> Just another data point for the hopper 
>> 
>> 73  W9OY  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _____________
>


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