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Old September 23rd 06, 10:26 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Wes Stewart Wes Stewart is offline
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Default Use of lattice line to feed dipole

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:24:59 -0700, Danny Richardson
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:48:16 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Danny Richardson wrote:
Just drop by my qth anytime between November and May.


How do you keep the water on the feedline? Mine
always beads up and falls to the ground.


Here's a photo of a piece of Danny's line (Wireman 552), after it set
around in the Arizona 5% humidity for a while It was still green when
I got it.

http://www.k6mhe.com/n7ws/MossyLine.jpg

What do you suppose the dielectic properties are when that stuff
totally bridges the line and is wet?



I don't do anything. Ever heard of Oregon mist?

When I first moved up here on the northern California coast I put up a
doublet feeding it with window line. The next spring when I dropped
the antenna for some maintenance I found moss growing on the feed
line.Need I say it was replaced with something better?