Okay...  Since everyone's talking about feed line.  
I will soon be building a new QTH a few miles from where I am now.  The new
QTH will have a lot more area for antennas so that means I will be digging
up my tower and replanting it at the new QTH.
The tower will be approximately 150 feet from the house and the feed line
will have to make a 90 degree turn.  I will be running no more than 1500
watts.  Since I can't imagine having the finances for hard line what would
be the next best coax to get?  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

73, Gary N5GD
          

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Alan R. Downing
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 4:55 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Feedline Talk

Hi Phil, I just didn't want to be told by someone that discussing hardline
is irrelevant because no one needs to use it.  Hardline is also required on
long runs.  I was speaking with a friend in Oman on skype yesterday, and he
was in the midst of replacing a 400 foot run of RG213 to 7/8 hardline on his
40 meter circuit, and inch and 5/8 on his 20 meter 6 over 6 stack.  I was
incredulous that anyone would use RG213 on such a long run.  I heard back
from him today, and he couldn't believe how much better he can hear stations
now that he isn't experiencing great losses in his 213 runs.
I had originally installed half inch Andrew from my shack to the base of my
tower because I had been given 700 feet of brand new hardline.  Then, for
some reason that I can no longer recall, I decided that I should replace the
half inch hardline with 7/8 hardline.  My run is roughly 100 feet from my
shack to the bottom of my tower, and that 100 foot length of 7/8, + the 7/16
DIN connectors on each end, cost me something like $800, and I couldn't tell
any difference.  If the run was for say 900 MHz or higher, there would have
been a substantial improvement, but at frequencies below 30 MHz,it wouldn't
be detectable except by high precision instrumentation.


Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Feedline Talk

Alan,

 I must be weird but I find feedline discussions as interesting as antennas
 and antenna building.

 Phil.
 K0NX