Topband: Quick disconnect for Ladder Line

[George & Marijke Guerin]

Bill et. al.

If you are going to try the Plexiglas method, I have used banana plugs and
banana jacks to change connections from antenna to tuner or balun and
antenna to ground.

Another thought is to use the knife switch to go from feeder to tuner/balun
or to ground and also pull the banana plugs from the ladder line to
tuner/balun.  Someone made spark gaps for ladderline that worked as well:
Kind of a diamond shaped ground lead inbetween the incoming ladder line
terminals:

 __      _____     __
|__> <_____> <__|
  |             |             |
  |             |             |
line        gnd        line

This is supposed to help direct the energy away from the other side of knife
switch.

73       Happy Thanksgiving

 George    K8GG



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