[Lowfer] Twisted Pair as Feedline

[Jim]

I've got a thousand feet of Cat 5 cable that's been setting around for three 
or four years now.  I was curious if anyone had looked at using twisted pair 
(such as Cat 3 and Cat 5 cable) as feedline at LFs.

I'm looking at a Part 15 beacon, so what I'd be doing is feeding a 170 kHz 
square wave and DC power to the remote final amp. I think Cat 5 is rated 
something like 100 ohms characteristic impedance and up to around a half amp 
of continuous current.

If I go with coax, I'm probably going to go for an antenna location that's 
about 100 ft. from the sack (where the oscillator, keyer, and power supply 
are). I do have a better antenna location that's about 500 ft. from the shack 
that I might try with a twisted pair feed.

Just curious if anyone has played around with this before...

73 de
Jim W4JBM

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