No, I didn't use a wetting agent other than Oregon rain (which was not
squirted, but allowed to fall naturally from the sky). And your
recollection of a line "laying" [sic] on a wooden deck might be because
my line was supported above my wooden deck (several feet above the
ground) by TV standoff insulators. Interesting how we remember what we
want to, rather than what we actually read, isn't it?

Perhaps you should go back and read my posting. If you can't find it
with a groups.google.com search, let me know and I'll post the date and
subject title. Or, if you have back issues of QST, see Technical
Correspondence in the February 1982 issue.

In the 22 years since publishing the test results, I haven't seen any
objective and quantitative test results which contradict my findings.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

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?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp