[TowerTalk] Needing some old phone drop line

K8RI on Tower talk k8ri-tower at charter.net
Mon Apr 3 04:06:07 EDT 2006


This the stuff that looks like black "zip cord"? If so I had a *lot* of it 
at one time. I don't know if there's any left out back or not.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com


> Hello, I'm hunting some of that old copper clad, phone company
> dropline...It makes good cheap antennas. I made a 40 meter loop out of
> some once and used some of it for the matching stub (72ohm). Its tough,
> a little hard to work with but well worth the effort. So, if any of you
> guys out there might have some around, I'd certainly like to get it to
> make our field day antennas out of...73, Alan
> ps. I'm always open to suggestions of something else to use..
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