UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum - View Single Post

Mullard_Nut_74 · 22nd Mar 2020, 2:33 pm

I remember my grandfathers home antenna was on a huge A frame tower in his back yard with a huge length of 300 ohm ribbon cable that looked like a plastic ladder running all the way from the top, under the house and up through the floor boards to a 2 pin plug.
I remember having to climb that tower and reconnect the cable and tape thejoin together after some cockatoos chewed through it in the middle of the cricket in the 80's
Stripped the wire with my teeth, twisted the ends together with my bare fingers and taped the joins.

22nd Mar 2020, 2:33 pm	#13
Mullard_Nut_74 Tetrode Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Posts: 65	Re: 300 Ohm ribbon feeder. I remember my grandfathers home antenna was on a huge A frame tower in his back yard with a huge length of 300 ohm ribbon cable that looked like a plastic ladder running all the way from the top, under the house and up through the floor boards to a 2 pin plug. I remember having to climb that tower and reconnect the cable and tape thejoin together after some cockatoos chewed through it in the middle of the cricket in the 80's Stripped the wire with my teeth, twisted the ends together with my bare fingers and taped the joins.