Denny "Smitty" Schmidt wrote:
I am renting a trailer house in Minnesota for the winter. I would like to
put up a crude longwire. Any ideas regarding the best way to bring the
leadin into the place with out drilling holes? Could I use coax and close
the window on it without a lot of loss? I have a bunch or RG58 and RG6 and
some 300ohm flat wire around the place.

You can buy a "flat" lead for satellite TV made from very thing coax in a
plastic sheath that will protect it. It's 75 ohm, but still good enough.

Another thing you can do is to put a small strip of wood on the bottom or
side of the Window and drill holes for the coax in it. You then seal the wood
against the window frame with putty, and put weatherstriping on the window
side. If it is cold enough, you can just seal the window to the wood.

Before you mount it, make extra holes for more wires and close them up
with putty that does not harden.

You may not think you need them now, but you never can be sure until you
need to add another antenna, or run counterpoises.

Geoff.


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