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Topband: Twin lead for antenna

To: "Ford Peterson" <ford@cmgate.com>, <Topband@contesting.com>,"Missouri Guy, N0TT" <n0tt1@juno.com>
Subject: Topband: Twin lead for antenna
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:50:05 -0400
List-post: <mailto:topband@contesting.com>
I based my comments on a study I did when I owned a bike
rack business a few years ago.  I spent countless hours
riding in the back of a Suburban watching binder straps in
the wind.  We needed a binder to act as a hold down on
campers.  It didn't matter how you twisted, braced, or
protected a 'flat' in the wind, it would start to oscillate
like a guitar string. >>>

Don't install your Beverages on car trunks then!

Seriously, I've used twin lead,  ladder line, and window
line for Beverages since the 1970's!! My very first Beverage
installation was a V shaped array of two twin-lead
Beverages. I could get six directions out of two antennas! I
used that same wire in three locations until 1988, and never
had a problem with failure from anything but trees falling
on the wire.

73 Tom


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