[TowerTalk] 40/80m dipole

Tom Osborne w7why at verizon.net
Thu Mar 25 20:21:53 PDT 2010


Hi Jim

Remember the old 'twisted pair" feedline?  I used a lot of that stuff way 
back when.

I had a ham friend who worked for the telephone company and he had lots of 
that stuff.  Old copper coated steel or something, stiffer than heck :-)  73
Tom W7WHY


>
> BTW -- if you feed this thing with very low Z twinlead (like heavy zip 
> cord),
> you can tie both sides of the feedline together and load it on 80 and 160M 
> as
> a Tee vertical against some radials. It works quite well that way too.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim K9YC 



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