I hear the issue of postage stamp.  I share the utility with the xyl
KA7DHD but the laundry seems to preempt a lot of activity.  

As for the article I was mentioning, this had 4 wires running in a
combination of phasing's to form some kind of balanced pairs but I think
it was also in pvc for underground routing to the antennas.  I sure wish
I had the HRMAGAZINE cd these days.   


 

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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:33 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: radials for butternut v6

Brett,

That would have been some antenna farm.    You could grow quite a crop
of 
wire and aluminim.

There was a recent thread on Tower Talk about   using ladder line to
feed 
yagis  hundreds of feet away which normally would be fed with coax.   I 
didn't follow it closely, but i think the idea was  to use coax from the
rig to outside, then a matching unit to transform to 300 or  450 ohm,
then balanced line  to the tower and then  another matching  thing to
allow coax 
to the yagi.   The idea was to  replace hundreds of feet of lossey and 
expensive coax with   less lossey and cheaper balanced line, but lot's
of 
the discussion was on just how to transform  from coax to balanced and
back again.

Of course, with my postage stamp size property, this  is all something
I'll never have to worry about.

73 Steve KW3A