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Subject:
ladderline disconnect
From:
Kent Plemmons <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:54:12 -0400
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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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