TopBand: Re: [TowerTalk] Open Wire Line

[Joe Craig]

On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, w8ji.tom wrote:

> 
> > Spreader source?
> > 
> > Don W7WLL
> 
> Home made from UV resistant Lexan per 4X4NJ's suggestion. 
> 
> If the spreaders lasts through a whole year of GA sunshine without
> deterioration of any kind, I'm thinking of having a few thousand stamped
> out.


I've had good results with 3/8" teflon rod on a 600 ohm line.  Teflon is 
easy to machine and it is more heat resistent than lexan. (We get 
silver thaw up here so I melt of the ice by passing AC through the 
transmission line.)

After 7 years of sun, rain and melting ice episodes, the spreaders are
still in excellent shape.  The wire is Belden 8000 (#14).


73 
Joe VO1NA



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