Howard, I believe I get the message.  (ha, ha)

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From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Howard Kaufman
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 10:30 AM
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Subject: Re: Doublet Antenna

I do exactly what they tell you never to do, but it works, and it is all I
can do.  When the ladder line comes in to the shack, I have about 40 extra
feet left on my 96 feet of line.
I bring it around the ceiling of my shack in a 10 feet square.  connecting
it to hooks with short pieces of nylon line.  Then it goes in to the balun
to the tuner to the coax switch to the radios.  I tried cutting the line
short, and lost 10 DB on 160, so I put the line back on.  I don't know if I
would do this running high power, but I haven't grown an extra head yet
running 100 watts.  I guess the A.M. is theoretically 600 Watts of PEP
signal.
My children all had 10 fingers and 10 toes to.