That is good to hear so when I extend my open wire feed i will do 
something similar.  G4NSJ talks about how he hendles his feed line 
and he doesn't seem to be too careful with it.  Sometimes we get 
caught up in what is seen to be normal rather than stepping out to 
see what happens.

Cheers.


Ian, VK3vin




At 12:29 AM 4/05/2013, you wrote:
>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.