Topband: Open wire feeder

[Gary Smith]

I have 350' of coax going to a remote antenna switch which allows me 
to select from 5 vertical wires, I just posted about my radial 
system/plate they are part of. Amazing to me is between these 5 wires 
I can cover 160M-6M and I use no antenna tuner except the internal 
one in the K3. I have a tribander roof mounted but don't like using 
it because it picks up so much hash from neighboring sources. The 
wires 350 feet away are always quieter on the same band. 

I am losing a lot of Rx/Tx signal on the higher bands with this long 
coax. I have not been able to find anyone to sell me used/surplus 
hardline that's affordable at this 350' distance so am wondering if I 
could supply these antennas with open feeder line and do so in a 
practical manner to switch bands quickly in a contest. If the answer 
is to use just one wire and tune that, the 160M is 129' long and is 
mostly a sloper with the last 40 feet resting on the top branches of 
trees. What I'm doing now tunes nicely Ie: 17M tunes great with the 
80M antenna, as does 12M but the 160M is sometimes better so I select 
the better one at the time.

Thanks,

Gary
KA1J



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