[TowerTalk] remote tuner Vs lumped constants

[K8RI]

On 7/25/2013 7:58 AM, Tommy wrote:
> I agree! Both here in south Georgia and in Virginia I had 80m dipoles made
> with copperweld wire. In both QTH's I had storms that felled the trees
> holding up one end of the antenna wire, come down during storms and in
> neither case did the copperweld ever break.
>
> I also have never heard of OWL spacers being eighteen inches?? Where the
> heck did that come from? Typically 600 ohm OWL requires only about four inch
> spacing.

Who uses open wire line these days?  It would be very inconvenient here.

73,

Roger (K8RI)

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