On 3/24/2014 11:27 AM, William Hein wrote:
Looking for info on 75 or 70 twinlead or ladderline cable. Does such a
thing exist?
Google search did not come up with anything but maybe I'm overlooking
something
Tnx
BIll AA7XT
Spiderbeam uses insulated Wireman CQ-532 PE insulated multistrand copper
coated steel for their elements:
http://www.spiderbeam.com/product_info.php?info=p197
At the feedpoint of several of the driven elements they bring wires from
the two element halves together and run them in parallel for a short
distance. The wires are held parallel by multiple short pieces of
adhesive filled shrink tubing spaced an inch or so apart (see page 13):
http://www.pd7bz.com/radioprogs/antennes/spiderbeam_constructionguide_english.pdf
This parallel combination of CQ-532 is supposed to have a characteristic
Zo of 50 ohms and I can attest from personal experience that it handles
1500 watts with no problems at the moderate VSWRs that that Spiderbeam
exhibits. You could probably get the Zo up 70 to 75 ohms by adding some
shrink tubing around each individual piece of CQ-532 to increase the
effective spacing. As with everything on their antennas, this Spiderbeam
twinlead is very lightweight.
For longer runs where building the Spiderbeam type twinlead as described
above is too cumbersome and weight is less of a consideration, you might
look at running two pieces of RG-83 35 ohm coax in parallel. That would
give you 70 ohms balanced Zo between the center conductors.
73, Mike W4EF..........
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