Jery, If you have to, you have to!! Use good quality coax. But on
HF, 200 feet is doable. Use RG8x or better - a good ham store could
make recommmendations.
Pat, K9JAuAt 08:32 AM 11/26/2007, you wrote:
>I finally got a tower. 40 ft. I now have a problem though. I can only
>put the tower in one place. I will need to run abount 200 of coax to
>get from the top of the tower to the radio. I realize that the shorter
>the run the better the reception and probably the transmition. How much
>of a loss will I experience? I guess what I am trying to ask is can I
>live with the loss?