On Mon, 10 May 2004 06:22:29 GMT, "Jerry Martes"
wrote:

[Richard's good stuff snipped]

You can lead 'em to water, but you can't make 'em drink.

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| I'm pretty sure I'll try to make it coax instead of "slab" like HP does
|it. I saw some 2 inch copper pipe at Home Depot today. They sell it in 5
|foot lengths for about $22.00. I'm OK with using only 1/2 wavelength for
|the slotted coax. I thought I might be able to 'get away with' using my
|scope for detecting the line voltages. I am wide open for learning that my
|approach has extremely difficult to solve problems. It all seems fairly
|easy right now.
| I was hoping to get a response from someone who either had built a line or
|knew of a publication on the pitfalls associated with making a slotted line.