[TenTec] Antenna question

[JAMES HANLON]

Phil,

I have a "Center Fed Zepp" that presents an inconvenient feedline end impedance to my tuner on 40 meters, so I add an extra quarter wave, about 33 feet, of 450 ohm ladder line to the end of the feedline for that band.  I just run that 33 feet of line as a loop around the outside wall of my house, supported on several standoff insulators.  If you can't find any commercial standoffs, you can easily make some out of slotted PVC pipe.  

Jim, W8KGI
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Phil Sussman<mailto:psussman at pactor.com> 
  To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<mailto:tentec at contesting.com> 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:03 PM
  Subject: Re: [TenTec] Antenna question


  Hi Bob,

  Thanks for the help. I have a guy with a rig on the 2nd floor using home made 
  ladder line consisting of #12 wire spaced a 4in. Feedline runs perhaps 10 ft 
  before it splits off (corner fed) into the loop.

  No balun at all. Fed right off the ladder line. I suspect the length of the 
  loop may have to be adjusted. Short of hanging line out of a second floor 
  window, I don't have a clue how to add more feed line.

  73 de Phil - N8PS