[Elecraft] OT - RG6 dual coax as feedline?

[Radio Amateur N5GE]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:58:52 -0700, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org>
wrote:

>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.
>

I also used the cable co. hardline in the 80's, but I built a
transformer for each end of the coax.  It worked very well.

The transformers were in a QST article, because their was so much of
that type of coax available back then.  Check the back issues of QST
for "CTV Coax" and you'll probably find a lot of articles regarding
the use of that coax.

73,

Tom, N5GE
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