Here's a thread on zipcord loss from years ago: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/What-your-mother-didn-t-tell-you-about-transmission-lines-td6780383.html
This is a real world result I observed: "About 10 years ago ET3PMW was attempting to get on the low bands and only had zip cord available for transmission line. I thought it should work fine for 80 and 160. However, on 80m running 100 watts he was barely detectible here using a 1200' Beverage for receive. Once Paul got some good ladder line, his signal was typically S8 on 80m and S6 on Topband, where he made several hundred QSOs with North America even in summer QRN (June/July)." Stay away from it until you can get decent ladder line! 73, Bill W4ZV -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
