[TowerTalk] Tower location and house noise

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,5/23/2017 7:33 PM, Ken wrote:
> I have plenty of room for antennas, I have 128 acres here.  I could 
> try putting something up 500' away but I figure the feedline losses 
> would do me in. 

Exactly how did you do that "figuring?" Did it involve doing the 
relatively simple math of looking at loss data vs frequency for feedline 
that you could afford to purchase? Or were you just assuming the greater 
loss? The matched loss of 500 ft of low loss RG8 (Belden 9913, Times 
LMR400) is less than 0.75 dB on 160M, only 1 dB on 80M, and 1.5 dB on 40M.

OR -- should you keep your TX antennas closer to the shack but add RX 
antennas in parts of your property that are quieter? There, feedline 
loss doesn't matter, and we can use low cost CATV coax to feed them. I 
can buy 1,000 ft of Commscope flooded RG6 for $100

https://www.amazon.com/COMMSCOPE-Professional-Underground-COAXIAL-Coated/dp/B00TBWWCT0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495647714&sr=8-1&keywords=commscope+rg6+flooded

I have several thousand feet of it running through my woods to RX 
antennas. This is excellent cable, easy to pull, and seems to be 
rodent-proof (they don't like the flooding material).

73, Jim K9YC