On 4/10/2019 10:33 AM, Mike DeChristopher wrote:
My plan is a 200' doublet (100' each side) about 100' high fed with ladder
line. At the base will be a legal limit remote autotuner and thereafter
hardline to the shack. That setup should handle 10-80. On 160, I'd like to
short the ladder line
Mike,
I had such a set up in Arizona. It worked well. The tuner was at the base of
the antenna. I used two vacuum relays to bypass the balun and short the two
sides of the ladder line.
GL and 73,
George
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:33:19 -0400
Mike DeChristopher wrote:
Topbanders,
During the
Mike, just like you plan to do, I use a doublet on 80 and up, and tie the
feed line together at the base and feed it against ground as a Marconi T on
160M.
I use Deltrol 900-series open frame 30A relays to remotely do the switching
of the ladder line. These are officially rated to 2200VRMS but
Topbanders,
During the winter, an icy pine branch saw fit to down my 160 inverted-L and
so I've begun planning a replacement. As we're allegedly headed into the
spring, and as it is unlikely I'll get to raise a tower with other work at
the new QTH still going on, I'm planning on something easy
