[Antennas] Suggestions Hardline Feedline Run

Charles E. Pitts cpitts at ec.rr.com
Wed Aug 29 19:32:01 EDT 2007


Hello all K5OF, Ed,  here in NC, Recent new subscriber and past subscriber from few years ago.I relocated and I am in the process of building a new home and station here in NC. New station will require hard-line feedline run to go across 15ft to 20ft dirt/gravel roadway/driveway to shack. This roadway has electrical and telephone line feeds to my property and a easement right of way to other property owners on adjacent land right down the middle of said roadway.So burial is out of the question to cross roadway or running through pipe or culvert due to unknown depth of electrical or telephone and possible damage to mine or my neighbors feeds. (buried more than 30 years ago!)  Looking for any ideas other than what I propose here to get feedlines to shack. My idea was to place large landscape timbers similar to RR ties across road laying parallel to each other across road with a wide enough space to accommodate feedlines required and eventually covered with earth to form a sort of "speed bump" like effect for lack of better term and visual to get feedlines to the shack. Lining the trough between the timbers with sand and/or small rock for drainage and the feedline laid on top of the sand or rock eventually covered with earth. This would permit any maintenance or replacement of feedlines to be accomplished without a lot of effort. This area is the only area of all the feedline run where I have a problem. Feedlines will be laying on ground or supported slightly above ground through woods for the rest of the run approx. 300-400 ft of feedline run. Sorry for long post but I felt being as descriptive as possible might save for repeats or misunderstandings Any and all ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Ed


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