Cecil Moore wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:

My measurements, posted on this newsgroup some time ago and also
published in QST's Technical Correspondence even longer ago, were for
300 ohm TV twinlead. The line was not lying on a wooden deck, nor did
the measurements involve detergent of any kind.


Who was it who published loss data based on laying the ladder-line
on a wooden deck and/or squirting a wetting agent on it? Did you
use a wetting agent?

So what we're saying is that if it rains really hard (horizontal rain)
and the rain happens to contain detergent, then that experimental result
is valid! 8^)

I've had a ladder line fed antenna up for a couple years, and noted no
difference between rainy and dry operation.

- Mike KB3EIA -