Topband: 1000 feet 5/8" hardline or 600ohm True Ladder line.

[Mike Waters]

Hardline for 160 meters?

I've mostly used hardline where I really needed it, like back when I was
doing weak signal work on the low end of 144 MHz.

Is 75 ohm CATV-type RG-6 (F-6) coax available where you live? That's what I
use on 160m to feed my inverted-L that is quite a distance from the
operating position. I buy Commscope quad-shield flooded (buryable) F-6 with
CCS conductor and a bonded inner shield in 1000' spools off eBay. I even
use F connectors at 1500 watts (as do other hams). Neither the coax nor the
F connectors get the least bit warm, even after several minutes of key-down
at 1500 watts.

The loss of RG-6 is about the same as RG-213. And it will handle over 3000
watts all day long in the hot sun.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com