"Mike Coslo" wrote:
I just don't think the test conditions are very realistic. But it does
tell me not to wash my ladder line with soap and water! ;^)

The way I tune my antenna system is by varying the length of the
ladder-line.
I have never seen rain make more than a two foot change necessary and the
SWR only ever changed by about 0.2. Two feet of feedline on 40m is not much
of a change in impedance and neither is an SWR change from 1.8:1 to 1.6:1.
Of course, I am savvy enough not to have a horizontal run of ladder-line out
in the rain. :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp