Topband: doublet as marconi

[GEORGE WALLNER]

Mike,
I had such a set up in Arizona. It worked well. The tuner was at the base of 
the antenna. I used two vacuum relays to bypass the balun and short the two 
sides of the ladder line.
GL and 73,
George

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:33:19 -0400
  Mike DeChristopher <mfdechristopher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Topbanders,
>
> During the winter, an icy pine branch saw fit to down my 160 inverted-L and
> so I've begun planning a replacement. As we're allegedly headed into the
> spring, and as it is unlikely I'll get to raise a tower with other work at
> the new QTH still going on, I'm planning on something easy for all band use.
>
> My plan is a 200' doublet (100' each side) about 100' high fed with ladder
> line. At the base will be a legal limit remote autotuner and thereafter
> hardline to the shack. That setup should handle 10-80. On 160, I'd like to
> short the ladder line together and feed as a T against the existing radial
> field.
>
> I know some of you are using similar setups, but are any of you doing it
> remotely as opposed to a "knife switch" in the shack? Any experience with a
> high power switching setup (relay type, circuit, mechanics, etc.)?
>
> 73,
> Mike N1TA
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