[Antennas] long wire antenna - can you use coax to get outside house?

Thu, 16 May 2002 23:14:17 -0500

I have a wire, about 250' long, 20' high, running around three sides of
my back yard (55' x 125' suburban lot).  My shack is in the basement; I
have replaced the glass in one window with Plexiglass(TM), and run wire
and coax through the plastic (either coax feed-thru or simply a 6-32 or
8-32 screw for wires.  I feed my wire with a tuner, using coax, up to a
4:1 coax balun at the window.  One arm goes to the wire antenna, the
other to a good electrical ground in the basement.  I can tune all bands
160-6 meters with this setup.

Dave          W9LYA
What wrought doG hath?

On Thu, 16 May 2002 21:39:41 -0400 "Joe Falcone"
<[email protected]> writes:
> I was wondering if you guys could give me your thoughts on the 
> following:  
> 
> I want to run a long wire direct from the tuner.  I also wanted to 
> run a counterpoise from the tuner.  Would it be a bad idea to run 
> them together until I got out of the house?  Would I be better off 
> to use coax, to get out of the house, and just use the center 
> conductor as part of the long wire?  Could I then run the 
> counterpoise next to it?  If I did that, do I count the coax as part 
> of the length of the wire?  
> 
> Or should I use the shield of the coax as part of the counterpoise 
> until I got out of the house.  The coax would be about 15 feet. 
> 
> Thanks Joe. 
> 
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