Mike, as long as it's your own house, there's no problem. I've solved the
problem in two ways.
1. I drilled a larger hole through the brick and insurted a thin PVC pipe
through it. I ran a short piece of 300 ladder line through it and connected
450 ohm ladder line on both sides. Then I used silicon to seal it. I ran a
kilowat through it for years with no problems.
2. I finally did it right. I purchased two threaded bronz rods, drilled two
parallel holes through the wall, inserted two pieces of thin PVC pipe and
ran the rods through the PVC pipe. My logic tells me this is a better
solution, but to be honest, I couldn't tell the difference after the
upgrade.
Both solutions brought the parallel feeder into the shack. I have the line
twisted outside, but the short 8 ft run inside the shack is not twisted.
It's simply fastened with a 1" plastic spacer to the ceiling in a couple of
places.
73
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Michael Goins
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:27 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RE: [RE: [TenTec] RFI and Orion ]]
I have a real problem with the new house. I built a wall of amoires
seperated
by a desk where I write (college prof/fiction writer). It also holds all the
gear on one of the shelves over my computer.
It is on a wall with no windows (only windows are on the opposite wall,
ceiling to floor), so I am looking at probably drilling a hole through the
wall and brick outside to install a pvc pass-through tube.
I have antenna problems with a very difficult neighbor (no radio problems,
yet), On top of that, I run 1 watt all the time, ssb, cw, and psk.
I'm a proponent of the centerfed 44 or 88 foot dipole, although I am looking
at another multiband vertical dipole (had good results there in the past).
Have some ideas I want to try, but biggest problem at the moment is getting
the feedline through the wall and RF potential floating around.
72,
mike
K5WMG
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