10 feet isn't bad, you can droop the ends or center depending on 
configuration and make that up.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Strange Power Readings With LDG TW1


> Howard,
> I'd like to try the Cobra - perhaps I can squeeze ten more feet in
> but my one hundred thirty something Carolina Windem works so well I
> hate to jinx it!!  Sadly changing antennaes is not as easy as changing 
> socks!!
> Pat, K9JAUAt 04:22 AM 9/30/2011, you wrote:
>>Tom, the challenge is the open wire center fed zepp likes spaciffic 
>>lengths
>>of laderline to work best.
>>look at the ultra-lite,
>>http://www.ultralite.com
>>I hope that's right.
>>The antenna is 140 feet long, but has wire looped in each element, so the
>>total wire length is 420 feet.
>>That is on the 160-10 meter version.
>>I don't know what the antenna or it's balun will do on 6 meters.
>>I keep thinking of trying it here, but I only have room for 1 antenna in 
>>my
>>little city lot.  What if it doesn't work as well as what I have?
>>I am using a 40 meter double extended zepp, fed with 96 feet of open wire.
>>I need an external tuner on some bands, and oddly enough it's weakest band
>>is 40 meters.  The problem is, is I hear it I work it.  Kozokstan last 
>>week
>>on 20 cw.  I swing the ends back to make it fit in a 120 foot lot.