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« Reply #25 on: November 19, 2011, 07:36:53 AM »
The ball on the top of whip antennas was to discharge any static build-up and prevent damaging the front-end of the radio.
And it seems appropriate that having the ladder line supports/spacers be metal free so that there are no impedance bumps along the way.
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