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Fri, 3 Jul 2015 16:58:42 -0700
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Re: ladderline disconnect
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Not much at all.  Just hook it up and have fune.  Hope you have a tuner 
to tune a ballanced line.
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Kent Plemmons wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I am in the process of putting up a horizontal loop antenna and feeding it
> with 450 ohm ladderline.
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> I have a knife switch that I am using to serve as a disconnect.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks and I hope each of you have a great Fourth of July holiday,
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> Kent Plemmons
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> Clyde, NC KK4FFF
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