G A Fred, Okay on the try later.  Yes I still climb but every one says I 
should qrt but I love climbing towers.  However Fred I can't stay up very 
long like I used to like a hour or two.  I kinda get a bit shakey for some 
reason.  Guess I am not in as good a shape as I once was hi hi.
I used to climbe my 75 foot tower I had years ago which was a crank up and 
the top section I could just get my toes on one foot on the cross brace. 
Now the tower is a Rhone 45 which is great for doing the job.  G L Fred and 
73.Ed   K7UC

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From: "Fred Adams" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:40 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: ladder line

> Ed, I might give it another try this summer if I can get myself together.
> Are you still climbing?  I was up one of my towers this morning.  My wife
> asked me about two weeks ago when I was going to stop climbing and I told
> her, when I die.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Ed Malmgren
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 11:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: ladder line
>
> Fred,  My tower is away from the house so I just use what reached to the
> balun which is under the eves of my house and that is about 56 feet which
> is not the best for 80 meters but the tuner tunes it okay.  I have about 
> 12
> feet of 213 going from the tuner to the balun.  I know the Z for 80 would
> be pretty high but it works okay anyway.  If I should run more feed line I
> would have a problem with extra. I don't have my ant to the top of my 50
> foot tower, just at 40 feet.  I don't like the idea of coiling ladder line
> up but I would run it out to a guy post or something like that.  73
> Ed   K7UC