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Old May 15th 05, 07:08 PM
John Smith
 
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Well, we could do it that way alright...

Give us more time to get back and worship engineers acutally...

Warmest regards,
John
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If "God"--expecting an angel... if evolution--expecting an alien... just
wondering if I will be able to tell the difference!

"Joe S." wrote in message
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| Holy ****!!! I just read this entire thread and it has rapidly
deteriorated
| into a pile of nonsense. It's a Zepp on one band but not on another but
| then it's a windom no it's not yes it is why not becasue yadda yadda.
|
| Remember this: Engineers designed the Titanic. Engineers also designed
the
| sky bridge at the Kansas City Raddison and engineeers desigend the roof of
| the Hartford Civic Center. And engineers design antennas.
|
| Just put the goddam wire up in the air, tie some kind of feedline to it,
run
| it through the antenna tuner, tune for zereo reflected power and make
| contacts. All else is bull****.
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| "GeorgeF" wrote in message
| nk.net...
| I am currently using a 150' randomwire for 80 & 40 meters. Its
| connected to the "wire" terminal of an MFJ-949 tuner. Been happy so far
| with the conntacts made.
|
| I'm considering taking an turning it into an endfeed windom simply by
| running 450 ohm ladder line from the MFJ-949 to the top of my 30' mast
| which current supports the randomwire. I'll be cutting the randomwire
| at the mast and soldering one side of the 450 line while letting the
| otherside of the 450 line not attached to anything.
|
| Is there any advantage of doing this? Basically I'm taking a 150'
| randomwire and turning it into about a 120' endfeed windom, will it be
| worth the effort?
|
| George
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