On Sunday, October 14, 2012 6:19:15 PM UTC-4, Boomer wrote:
On 10/14/2012 5:04 PM, gipy wrote:

I am using a long wire in the trees coming straight to my tuner but I need to route the feed line underground to keep it stealth and I can't seem to find any articles on this topic.

My question...

I would like to use insulated wire or does it have to be coax only and would I lose performance?

Someone told this type of antenna would act as a lighting rod and would be dangerous.

My other question...

Why would it be more dangerous than any other antenna when most receivers and transceivers are grounded in some way?

Thanks in advance





Well you cannot bury open wire and expect any results. What frequency

are you operating on? Are you transmitting? I think your best bet at

this point is to bury coax and feed a dipole antenna if you are

transmitting. Random wire antennas perform even worse than G5RVs. They

are about the worst.

I'm not sure I agree with that statement, I have used a g5rv in the past and I have had great success throughout the years with a random wires, end-feds, long-wires etc. The trick is to have a good ground when using a random wire.

Im in a situation where I need to bury the feed-line to a random wire (end-fed type) antenna and Im looking for the best way of doing this.