Tim Shoppa wrote:
I just obliviated all the issues by getting rid of everything except
for the 135foot element, and replacing the feed coax with 450-ohm
ladder line on the back of my antenna tuner (Ten Tec 277).

And if you really wanted to, you could change the
system resonant frequency by changing the length
of the ladder-line. http://www.w5dxp.com/notuner.htm
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com