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[Towertalk] 450 ohm ladder line strain relief

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Subject: [Towertalk] 450 ohm ladder line strain relief
From: k4oj@tampabay.rr.com (Jim White, K4OJ)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 21:09:13 -0500
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 ceramic 
cente insulator secure the sandwich to it by going around the center 
insulator with some form of a strap - - a pair of X-HD cable wraps would 
work nice - they would pass through slots in your sandwich - make the 
slots as far apart as possible....

...that is one approach....

73 - HNY TTians

Jim, K4OJ



Barry Kirkwood wrote:

>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 it off the joints it makes with the antenna itself.
>Have punched small holes in the webs and woven stranded fishing line through 
>the holes, taken the line back to the insulator above to take weight of the 
>feedline. 
>Am I doing right?
>Any ideas?
>Happy 2003
>Barry 
>
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