The author used a wetting agent.
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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John, N9JG wrote:
An excellent article. It appears to indicate that at 7 MHz a feed line
made from 100' of Wireman 554 window line would have a loss of about 2 db
when the line is wet. When the line is dry, the loss is insignificant.
I've often wondered how someone "wets" a vertical feedline
without using soap.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com