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A quick and dirty 44 ft. Broadside Doublet / NorCal Doublet for portable operations

I first learned about The NorCal doublet from a YouTube video by my geology colleague and ham-radio instigator Tim (N7KOM). So last year I bought some ribbon cable, quickly made one, and it didn’t work: my radio couldn’t tune it. I suspect it was because my cable was 4 conductor and not 5 conductor. Zoom…