[TenTec] Editing

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>In a message dated 1/19/2006 5:19:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>rohre at arlut.utexas.edu writes:
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>If you  insulate the line conductors and make a BIG loop of it on a stand 
>off piece of PVC pipe, it easily rotates without wrapping around 
>the  mast.  The standoff looks like a letter "T" made of PVC  pipe.

To those of you who have QST libraries.... look at the pre-WW2 schemes
for feeding beams with open line.... our fathers and grandfathers were no 
dummies....

At the antenna end of the open line you feed a fixed loop under the beam, 
and the beam then has a close spaced loop right above it... inductive 
coupling - and no problem with twisting feedlines....

As the proverb goes, "nothing new under the sun"....

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