On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:41:30 -0000, Larry Gagnon
wrote:

I will be constructing a 135' doublet (14ga. copper 7 strand) fed with
ladder line. I am trying to decide what type of ladder line to use:

1) 450 ohm commercial 14ga solid wire
2) 450 ohm commercial 14ga stranded
3) 450 ohm commercial 16ga stranded
4) make my own from 14ga stranded

I am leaning towards the commercial 16 ga stranded, partly for
convenience, also I am only running 100 watts or QRP, and I think it
might be a bit more flexible in the wind. I only need about 50' of
feedline. Any comments from hams who have actually used any of the above
and how it faired over the years would be greatly appreciated.

Larry VE7EA

I'm using either 14 or 16 guage solid 450 ohm commercial line, and it
works fine w/100 watts, and has no probems in our moderate climate. I
don't bother to twist it every few feet, and haven't noticed anything
adverse. I'm about to put up a longer dipole with 600 ohm open line to
see if that works even better on a multi-band dipole -- you might add
that to your list of possibles; see www.w7fg.com

bob
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