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

[Carl]

Hardline doesnt get chewed Mike; I run 750' of 1/2" CATV on the ground to 
the Beverage hub. That was after flooded RG-11 and RG-6 got destroyed during 
a few winter months when the critters were hungry.

Not a nibble in the past 24 years.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Waters" <mikewate at gmail.com>
To: "topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: 1000 feet 5/8" hardline or 600ohm True Ladder line.


> 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
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