[TenTec] Openwire fed differently

[Denton]

hmmmm..lets see...imagination guys..
Hide the ladder line behind a treolis? Inside a false rain gutter downspout? 
Paint the ladderline?
Whats behind the stucco....chicken wire? If not, any fireblocking to impede 
feeding the ladderline up thru the inside of the wall to just under the 
eaves? Run two paralled 75 ohm coaxal lines for a short run?
I'm about to change the upstairs office/hamshack back to a bedroom and move 
what's up here down to the basement bedroom...in my case, the house sits on 
a cinderblock foundation, so it was real easy to replace one of the regular 
cinderblocks with a foundation vent block.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NJ0IP" <Rick at DJ0IP.de>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Openwire fed differently


>I changed to a new thread on this openwire stuff.
>
>
>
> Background:
>
> I've moved my shack to the basement of my typical Bavarian house.
>
> The front of our (stucko) house is painted with typical Bavarian artwork 
> and
> my XYL lights up the front side with lights at night.
>
> For some reason she thinks the ladderlines ( I have two, because there are
> two antennas) disturb this traditional Bavarian picture and she nixed the
> idea of me running the ladderline into the basement window on the front 
> side
> of the house.  So now I'm stuck with about $3000 worth of Annecke
> symmetrical tuners and no openwire antenna.
>
>
>
> Challenge:
>
> Well I'm a cw contester and an SSB rag chewer.  I need an antenna to cover
> both portions of the band.
>
> I have a solid state Linear Amp (Henry SS750-HF) that needs a relatively
> good SWR.
>
> An 80m dipole just won't cut the mustard.
>
> At least here in Europe we don't need to cover such a large frequency 
> range.
>
> Our 80m band begins at 3500 and ends at 3800.
>
> We don't have any 75m privileges.
>
>
>
> Money Money Money:
>
> Here in Europe there are a couple of companies offering remote symmetrical
> tuners, but they go for about $2000 a piece.
>
> OUCH.
>
> Well I can run coax out the shack and under ground and place one such a 
> box
> in the yard somewhere.
>
> I hate to think of buying even one, and certainly cannot afford two of 
> these
> beasts.
>
>
>
> Ideas:
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> What else is available?
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Rick
>
> DJ0IP / DJ2T / NJ0IP
>
> Munich, Germany
>
>
>
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