Cecil Moore wrote in message ...

Brian Kelly wrote:
. . . OK but 110 feet of feedline to an antenna at 40 feet is a whole
lot of feedline to deal with under normal installation condx. At least
around here in suburbia.

Hey, but not for field day. Whoever heard of a "field" with no room for
110 feet of feedline?

Well . . it sorta "depends". In the instant case the FD "field" is one
of my daughters' 1/4 acre back yard, three decent-size hardwoods
spread out in maybe a 120 foot straight line and that's it. The other
op will probably be N2EY and he isn't into deep bush ops either.

IF one can figure out to what to do with all
the excess feedline without messing it up.

It can be coiled into a big helix as long as the adjacent coils are
a couple of feet apart. You can run an insulated rope to the antenna
feedpoint and coil the ladder-line on the rope with the coils tiewrapped
a couple of feet apart.

That's slick.

At the least you would have a conversation piece
to discuss over 807s (the best part of field day. :-) A photo of it would
probably make it into QST since it looks somewhat like a slinky. ;-)

I was thinking more along the lines of sniping one of the orange
barrels which are the Pennsylvania State Flower. They're quite readily
available at construction sites along the PA Turnpike and
slinky-wrapping feedline around one of those should do the job.

Let's see here, 2.5 feet diameter times Pi . . 7.85398 feet per wrap .
.. yeah, that would get rid of most of the ladderline. At worst maybe
I'd need a couple of 'em in series.

QRX for the QST cover shot.

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