[Elecraft] OT - RG6 dual coax as feedline?

[Phil Kane]

On 4/25/2009 9:05 AM, Mike C wrote:

> This past winter I was given a new 500-foot reel of RG6 dual coax
> w/messenger.

> My extensive searching has not uncovered any transmitting
> applications for this coax.

  One of our local gurus, the late Judge Greg Milnes, W7OZ, fed
  the HF antennas on his three 100-foot-plus towers with 75 ohm
  "hardline" that he, probably like yourself, got from a local
  cable company that was surplussing it.  It survived his
  "loafing along" 1500-watt amplifier output with no problems.  The
  1.5:1 SWR was easily tuned out.

--  73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
    Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

    From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
    Beaverton (Washington County)  Oregon