[TowerTalk] "75-Meter Dipole Stretcher"

[Tom Osborne]

Maybe I am 'inept' on how to use ladder line, but I have been using it for
60 years off and on.  Problem with my setup using ladder line is noise.

Maybe I just don't understand how to use it, but on my 40 meter dipole that
I had ladder line on, the noise is about 3 or 4 s-units louder with the
ladder line than with the same antenna ded with coax..

I could put a 4:1 balun between the ladder line and a piece of coax, but
don't like to do that as the impedance is all over the place when you go
from band to band with the ladder line.

So - how do I use the ladder line and lower the amount of noise on the
feedline?  Thanks and 73
Tom W7WHY


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nothing amazing about balanced line but the people who are inept at
> how to handle it are amazing.
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> >I feel the same about balanced/ladder line.
>
> >Wes  N7WS
>
>
> >On 10/16/2017 7:01 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>
> >I never fail to be amazed at the contortions coax obsessed hams put
> >themselves through to cling to that kind of feedline no matter what
> >the circumstances are.
>
> >Rob
> >K5UJ
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