Hi, all concerned:

subject: The simple answer is, "Yes". Then, it gets, well, complicated.
TDIITDetails, YK.

After several fires-on-the-feedline with QRO and commercial steel-cored
owl's, I rolled my own, and I close the (vinyl "AIRTITE"-brand) windows on
parallel strips of copper flashing, fastened to the sills inside and out, to
get up to the legal limit of r-f into or out of the shack. Parallel-tuned
or series-tuned ckts in the shack take care of the coax-to-owl transitions.

It once was a quickie way to get on 160M, to yak with one's buddies, by
deliberately tying together the ends of the owl feeder to an 80M dipole
right in the shack, and feeding the thing as a wire against what ever ground
was available. That mode can occur as an unintended consequence of simply
using what ever lengths of "antenna" and "feedline" that fit one's
situation. BT, DT .

I forestall many rfi problems in the shack by having several layers of
aluminum foil, under the rug, with drain wires connected to equipment and
earth ground. This cools metal microphones and knobs down nicely if one
uses the quickie fix to get on 160M.

HTH.

73, Dave, N3HE

"zeno" wrote in message ...
Seems like everyone I talk to about using ladder line to my
proposed 540' horizontal skywire loop does a double take when
I say I want to use ladder line into the shack. I was curious
if there are any fans of ladderline feed systems who can
relate positive experiences, or am I about to really court
disaster here.

The ARRL antenna book says that coax to this type of antenna
is not as "multiband" friendly as was once fantasized....they
recommend ladder line.

Anyone actually have such a loop? What is your experience?


Bill, K6TAJ