On my 130 ft high 80M dipole, I use a short center insulator. To connect the ladderline, I cut out one of the center blocks, leaving the insulation on the wire, run the wires through the holes in the
Looking for ideas about strain relief for 450 ohm ladder line (the = plastic ribbon stuff with square holes in it). Like: where one connects it to the centre of a dipole, seems uncouth to = just hang
Barry, I make my own open wire line feeding an 80 meter delta loop and I use the plastic "weedeater" line woven in and out thru the open wire line and I let the weedeater line be taut compared to the
Barry: I run a length of guy rope, nylon I believe, throught the 450 ladder line (probably better called window line). I thread it through about every 10-12 spaces, after so many of those I put a twi
sandwich the flat feedline between two pieces of plastic (pref UV resistant) - bolts those two pieces against one another so that this entire sandwich can now be suspended - if you have a traditional
Jim: That is a good suggestion. I now remember it. I used something similar for coax line as well. No strain on the connexion. The Lexan was also used for the centre insulator and was in a triagular