[TowerTalk] 450 ohm feedline and coax

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,12/23/2014 9:07 AM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> HI All
>
> I've seen that you should keep the 450 ohm twinlead at leas the width 
> of the cable away from anything metallic.  Does that include coax cable? 

YES! And although I haven't seen any math to support it, I'd want wider 
spacing than that.

> I want to run some twinlead out to an antenna and where it would come 
> into the shack is a coax cable and it would be laying right on top of it.
>
> Just wonder it that would cause any problems. 

Yes, it could cause problems.

73, Jim K9YC