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"Doug Dotson" wrote:

Normally, when tywrapping the feedline to the backstay below
the insulator, the lower part of the backstay is not grounded. Otherwise
small standoff are used.

Doug. k3qt
s/v Callista

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
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Imagine what 2 meters of coax with a capacity of 200pF ( a "load" of
about 200 ohms at 4 MHz) does to a high impedance (several kOhms at
4MHz) antenna connection: right... almost short circuit it to ground.
NEVER use coax between the ATU and the antenna.


That's just about as bad as neatly tywrapping the wire from the tuner to
the bottom insulator on the backstay to the grounded backstay part UNDER
the bottom insulator. Trying to get them to let that wire HANG away from
everything to lower the capacitance to ground is like trying to get 5200
adhesive that's hardened out of a crack in the decking. They don't care
what it does to the signal output, as long as it looks "neat and tidy".

Larry W4CSC




I liked the idea, I saw here a while back, of using the new Kevlar based
Backstay material, and not worring about having to ground or not. Seemed
like the logical answer to me. Then just helical wrap the antenna wire
around the Kevlar Backstay and have a really nice "Fully Loaded Antenna
with alot of electrical length........


Bruce in alaska
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