[TenTec] Open Wire Line

[Jim Brown]

Re-read my sentence. I am not objecting to the use of open wire line 
when it is matched to the antenna, but to the use of it as a band-aid 
for badly matched antennas.

I've toured several large short wave facilities, including the old VOA 
site at Mason, OH when it was still in operation in 1964. Broadcast 
stations use open wire line in both a 2-wire configuration and a coaxial 
configuration. In the coaxial configuration, which is often used to feed 
verticals, multiple wires at close spacing as a center conductor 
surrounded by more wires suspended by a U-shaped bracket.

73, Jim K9YC

  On Mon,10/19/2015 7:52 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>> I do NOT recommend the use of open wire line as a band-aid for badly matched antennas.
> This doesn't change the fact that every shortwave broadcast station in
> the world uses open wire line to balanced antennas, usually rhombics
> and dipole curtains, for covering multiple assigned frequencies across
> HF.