If you have any excess coax in the feedline, you might try winding a 
coil and see if it helps.  No cost.

The line isolaters Butch mentioned sound like a neat way to go.

Again, most of the OCF antennas use direct coax feed without the open 
wire line, but you have what you have, so make it work.

73, Steve KW3A

On 8/12/2013 10:10 PM, Mike Barnard wrote:
> A friend and I made the windam, 43 feet on the one end and 93 feet on
> the long end, with a oblong plastic  piece about 6b inches long for
> the center.  The plastick has an oblong hole for the later line to go
> through, two screws for the later line to hook up to 12 gauge wire,
> and then a couple of inches towards the outside of the plastic two
> more screws holding the wire so that it won't put any strain on the
> later line.  It then is hooked to 2 trees with pulleys, so I can let
> the antenna down if I have to.  The later line hooks to a 4 to 1
> balum, and then has coax going to the shack.
> Kind of a home brew windam.
> I hope that explains the antenna.
> If i didn't make it clear enough, let me know.  I did unhook the auto
> tuner, and I still heard RF.  I will try grounding the mike tomorrow.
> We went to the county fare this afternoon with my cousin, and  ate
> more "junk food" than we should and looked at old tractors, and
> demolition cars, I never knew what some of those machines looked like
> and how big they were, or how they set up the cars to run in the demo durbys.
> A little off topick, but it was interesting.
> Mike
> KD2CDU
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