Not at all.
It's a zero length, just at the contacts.


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Howard, W A 9 Y B W
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 2:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ladderline disconnect

Kent,

This shouldn't make any difference at all.

Howard #3, W A 9 Y B W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Plemmons" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 1:54 PM
Subject: ladderline disconnect


> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I am in the process of putting up a horizontal loop antenna and feeding it
> with 450 ohm ladderline.
>
> I have a knife switch that I am using to serve as a disconnect.
>
> The knife switch is a two wire switch.  By this I mean that it can
> connect/disconnect two wires like what is found with 450 ohm ladderline.
>
>
>
> The distance between the two parallel wires of the ladderline is about 3
> eights of an inch wider than the distance between the parallel connecters 
> on
> the knife switch.
>
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how this narrowing of the distance between the 2 wires 
> as
> they pass through the knife switch may affect my transmission/rreception?
>
>
>
> Thanks and I hope each of you have a great Fourth of July holiday,
>
>
>
> Kent Plemmons
>
> Clyde, NC KK4FFF
>
> 


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