Re: [Elecraft] Big Coax on Dipoles

2009-07-22 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
Good morning Jim, Thanks for your e-mail. I also use tall trees to support antenna catenarys, which are made from 6mm dia woven marine rope, along with marine pulleys, and a counterweight at one end of each catenary. The counterweight for each catenarys is fused, so if another tall tree falls

Re: [Elecraft] Big Coax on Dipoles

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Ellington
:03 AM Subject: [Elecraft] Big Coax on Dipoles On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:19:03 +0100, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: orgetting about RF performance for a moment, wouldn't the weight of RG-8/ RG-213 create a problem unless the antenna is supported at its feedpoint ? I have four fan dipoles

Re: [Elecraft] Big Coax on Dipoles

2009-07-22 Thread Wes Stewart
, with generally unknown performance characteristcs, and at worst not much better than dumy loads. Wes Stewart  N7WS --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com wrote: From: Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Big Coax on Dipoles To: Jim Brown j

[Elecraft] Big Coax on Dipoles

2009-07-21 Thread Jim Brown
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:19:03 +0100, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote: orgetting about RF performance for a moment, wouldn't the weight of RG-8/ RG-213 create a problem unless the antenna is supported at its feedpoint ? I have four fan dipoles suspended at 100-120 ft between tall trees