"Reg Edwards" wrote in message ...
How would
one stiffen the overall draped loop though to prevent it being blown
near metal in a breeze?

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What's the matter with metal, steel, aluminium ?

Are they not good, low-loss conductors?

No harm in running, if you must, balanced lines near to metal structures for
a few inches.

I have seen a method which involves inductive coupling between a pair
of single turn loops. I guess the idea is that you have a loop on the
tower and a loop on the mast (possibly both self resonant to present
the proper impedance to the ladder line). You make them coplanar and
close together so that they couple to each other, and connect the
ladder line to their terminals.

This, of course, only works for monobanders...

73,

Dan, N3UMH