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I am using insulated 450-ohm ladder line.
I'm sorry about omitting that detail before.
Tom Behler; Kb8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: G5RV Disappointment
> don't forget, the wire is insulated wire, so is the coax, and so is the
> twin
> lead/latter line.
> Even if that insulated wire is right up against a metal object, it's not
> goign to show a DC short of any kind. He's seeing a DC short, not an RF
> inductive short.
> Once that DC short is gone, then he can worry about metal objects and how
> that effects the RF etc.
> The antenna tuner tuned the thing on 28MHZ because it was some how close
> enough to a resonant wire via the feedline and the rest of the antenna in
> the shorted state to be tuned.
> Then again, Tom hasn't confirmed that he is using insulated twin
> lead/latter
> line, perhaps he's using open wire with separators and forgot to tell us?
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: G5RV Disappointment
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>> What to think, is that something is wrong. Unfortunately, the twin lead
>> or
>> the connection at the feedpoint has the short. Wire around metal is not
>> good either!
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