Outbacker Fly Lead Length
 

Greetings,

Can anyone tell me what the proper fly lead length is for an Outbacker
Perth Plus antenna? It's the lead that connects to ground. I have
already been to the Terlin Aerials website and emailed them twice,
with no response. Thanks in advance.

Pat WL7Z

Pat WL7Z wrote:

Greetings,

Can anyone tell me what the proper fly lead length is for an Outbacker
Perth Plus antenna? It's the lead that connects to ground. I have
already been to the Terlin Aerials website and emailed them twice,
with no response. Thanks in advance.

Pat WL7Z


Pat;

I just measured the length of the fly lead on my plus. It measures 27
inches from the tip of the plug to the end of the wire. I hope that helps.

Dave WD9BDZ

Pat WL7Z wrote:

Greetings,

Can anyone tell me what the proper fly lead length is for an Outbacker
Perth Plus antenna? It's the lead that connects to ground. I have
already been to the Terlin Aerials website and emailed them twice,
with no response. Thanks in advance.

Pat WL7Z


Pat;

I just measured the length of the fly lead on my plus. It measures 27
inches from the tip of the plug to the end of the wire. I hope that helps.

Dave WD9BDZ

Dave,

Thanks so much! I can't believe how difficult it was to get that info. Now I
can finally get back on the air.

73,
Pat WL7Z

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Pat WL7Z wrote:

Greetings,

Can anyone tell me what the proper fly lead length is for an Outbacker
Perth Plus antenna? It's the lead that connects to ground. I have
already been to the Terlin Aerials website and emailed them twice,
with no response. Thanks in advance.

Pat WL7Z


Pat;

I just measured the length of the fly lead on my plus. It measures 27
inches from the tip of the plug to the end of the wire. I hope that helps.

Dave WD9BDZ

Dave,

Thanks so much! I can't believe how difficult it was to get that info. Now I
can finally get back on the air.

73,
Pat WL7Z

"David G. Nagel" wrote in message
...
Pat WL7Z wrote:

Greetings,

Can anyone tell me what the proper fly lead length is for an Outbacker
Perth Plus antenna? It's the lead that connects to ground. I have
already been to the Terlin Aerials website and emailed them twice,
with no response. Thanks in advance.

Pat WL7Z


Pat;

I just measured the length of the fly lead on my plus. It measures 27
inches from the tip of the plug to the end of the wire. I hope that helps.

Dave WD9BDZ

Greetings,

Can anyone tell me what the proper fly lead length is for an Outbacker
Perth Plus antenna? It's the lead that connects to ground. I have
already been to the Terlin Aerials website and emailed them twice,
with no response. Thanks in advance.

You want it as short as is practical, to minimize stray inductance.

If I recall correctly, the instructions were to plug the connector
into the NC jack, measure the wire-to-ground so that it would be taut
when connected to the grounding point, and then move the connector
from NC to GROUND. This results in a fly lead which has enough slack
to allow a spring mount to flex without ripping the connector out of
the plug, but not enough extra length to add sufficient stray
inductance to de-tune the antenna.

--
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Greetings,

Can anyone tell me what the proper fly lead length is for an Outbacker
Perth Plus antenna? It's the lead that connects to ground. I have
already been to the Terlin Aerials website and emailed them twice,
with no response. Thanks in advance.

You want it as short as is practical, to minimize stray inductance.

If I recall correctly, the instructions were to plug the connector
into the NC jack, measure the wire-to-ground so that it would be taut
when connected to the grounding point, and then move the connector
from NC to GROUND. This results in a fly lead which has enough slack
to allow a spring mount to flex without ripping the connector out of
the plug, but not enough extra length to add sufficient stray
inductance to de-tune the antenna.

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!