[TowerTalk] 75 ohm hardline/twinlead

[wbh3@chrysler.com]

I have 2 questions:

I recently obtained some 75 ohm hardline from my cable company.  In
talking to the gentleman who gave it to me (and is also a ham with a
lot of antenna experience), I asked him about a means of matching the
75 ohm hardline to the 50 ohm input  for my Icom 765.  His comment was
basically not to even bother or worry about it.....just hook it up and
go for it.  While he certainly seems to know what he is talking about,
I am still curious as to whether this will work as easily as he says it
will?

second question:  I have also heard (and wondered why not)  that
instead of using coax to feed    my beam, that I should just try  400
ohm ladder line (I assume with a proper  balun of some kind) to feed
the beam and I should get real good results with minimum loss.  Since I
am only going to have a short  run of about 60 feet to the beam, why
not use the ladder line instead of the more expensive coax?  It seems
that I have only heard of a few stations that use this method, everyone
else going with the standard coax.  Comments please!


Regards,   Bill - WX8S
wbh3@chrysler.com


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