[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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