[TowerTalk] Bringing Ladder Line into the house ??

[n0ss@socket.net (Tom Hammond)]

K2AV wrote:

>From: Jerry Morris - W5MS-W5KUF-Corpus Christi Amateur Radio Club To: James
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bringing Ladder Line into the house ??
>
>>connect 2 -75 ohm cables together side by side......connect shield
>>together at both ends.....
>>use center conductor for each side of ladder line.....do not ground
>>shield......been using this system on all 6 antennas......w5kuf

>Curious as to why you don't ground the shields.  Grounding the shields was
>the only way I could get rid of some florescent lamp noise. It changed the
>tuner settings just a smidge.

In this month's (May) issue of QST, on page 53, they show using coax
for parallel conductor line and they show the shields tied together
at both ends but only the TX END of the shields grounded to TX or 
tuner ground.

73 - Tom Hammond   N0SS

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