[TowerTalk] Fw: Feeding single band HF yagis 500+ ft from the shack

[Ken Boasi]

Dave,

If you Google “N4UH open wire”, one of the first results will be a scan of Ham Radio magazine from the late 70’s/early 80’s that has an article that N4UH wrote about using 200 ohm, 4 conductor open wire line for doing exactly what you describe. 

I have no idea how well it works or how big of a pain it is to deal with, but seems like an interesting concept, especially if you have the time to play around (or have access to a few thousand feet of wire at a good price). 

73, Ken N2ZN 



> On May 16, 2022, at 6:39 PM, dave arruzza via TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
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>  To all...
> I have a new QTH and the towers for the monoband yagis will be 500-600 feet away from the shack.
> I remember reading about utilizing 2 transformers and open wire line to minimize loss.
> One transformer at the tower base to transform the yagi coax to open wire.
> A run of open wire line to another transformer at the shack end.
> Then coax to the shack. 
> I know that I can buy hardline to accomplish this but that becomes costly.
> 73 Dave W1CTN / 4  
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