I have several LadderLine Fed antennas and do not have
such severe problems. The most noticable effect is to /
from a logging computer and the display monitor.
Tom N4KG
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
writes:
>
>
> The main problem with bringing ladder line or any open wire line
> into the
> shack lies with what I call the "hot shack" syndrome.
> With more than one 160 meter antenna the shack was full of hot RF
> and
> plenty of RF feedback. This also gets into the telephones
> radios, and even TVs that are not on cable. Even using a tuner
> with a
> balun can cause a problem.
>
> This is another form of fundamental overload. The cure is to remove
> the
> ladder line from the shack (by as many feet as possible). I found
> that
> using a remote balun (does not matter what values..) just outside
> the shack
> window still causes problems although far less severe than bring
> ladder line
> directly into the shack. A better approach is to move the remote
> balun to
> 40 feet or more from the shack. I did this with a big L I had up
> several
> years ago and the amount of RF in the shack was minimal.
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
>
>
>
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