[TowerTalk] 300 Ohm feedline

[ersmar at comcast.net]

Tom:

     My best guess (and that's what it is at this point) would be that whatever happens with rolled-up ribbon line is not predictable nor pretty.  Instead of using a continuous piece of ribbon, why not install a couple of, maybe, banana jacks and plugs at the fifty foot point in the line.  Use the shorter length when possible.  If you need a longer line, then plug the two pieces together.  [Many details left to the interested Amateur to figger out.]

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at verizon.net>
> Hi All
> 
> We're getting to go on a 2 week camping vacation in a couple of  weeks.  I 
> want to take an all band antenna along, so I made a dipole fed with 100 feet 
> of 300 ohm ribbon (not a center fed zepp--don't want to get that thread 
> going again :-).
> 
> What I was wondering, what happens if I put the antenna up 50 feet and coil 
> up the rest of the ribbon (I'd rather not cut it every time we get to a 
> different campground) where it comes into the camper?  Does it act like a 
> big choke or something?  Thanks and 73
> Tom W7WHY
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