[TowerTalk] Ladder line insulators again

[Bill Heinzinger]

5, 10, or 20 dollar chips?????


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Rhodes" <rhodes@willinet.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:03 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Ladder line insulators again


>
> I know that was 2 weeks ago, but I ran into an old friend tonight which
> brought up the memory of the time he needed to feed an antenna WAY out in
> the field, several hundred yard away from the house. Being the thrifty
type
> he didn't want to spring for hard line or even commercial ladder line.
What
> he came up with was 2 rolls of copper coated electric fence wire and a
> couple boxes of poker chips. He made up a jig to hold the 2 strands of
wire
> the right distance apart, heated the wire with a torch and melted the wire
> right into the poker chips. Quite colorful what with the red, white & blue
> poker chips.
> No, I don't know the dielectric properties of poker chips ;-)
> Jim Rhodes KC0XU
> rhodes@willinet.net
>
>
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