"gareth" wrote in message
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The solution is going to have to be no solution, and that is, in moving
the
co-linear from the top of the 14MHz vertical, is to move it with the
current
PL259 / SO239 connection intact and dig up the feeder cable where
it had been cemented over by the gardener's (SWMBO !!!!) creation of
stone steps to the door of her greenhouse

Unthreaded the cable OK, but where it fed up through the hole in my
wooden shed workshop,
I had put the cable in BEFORE attaching the PL259, and it jammed in the hole
when pulling it back through, requiring a round trip of an hour to clear the
junk from
that corner of the workshop and replace it afterwards.

There's always one, and the air was blue, and not from there being no clouds
in the sky!