I do have 1 other option. I have some 50' trees that would stretch about
130' apart. The issue is they are about 200' from the shack. Can I run that
much coax?

KC1DI wrote in message
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Hi Doug,

I'm Running the Windom ( OFCD) it identical to what your saying. but
you'll find that the coax needs to come off the antenna in pretty much a
90 degree angle. ohterwise you will end up with lots of fedline
radiation which will cause problems in the shack.
73 Dave kc1di


Can you give me an indication about how long a lead I need before
running the coax back toward the house and into the radio? I'm going
to run the coax up the house and out to the feedpoint.

Doug

Hi again Doug,

Was out of town so did not get your question for a few days.

You should run it away from the antenna at 90 degrees for about 1/4 wave
if possible. on 80M that would be about 66 ft. but as far as you can
in any event. some claim choke balun at 22' down the feedline works
well Mine is about 30' then a choke balun then about 75' to the shack
and it seem to work for me.
73 Dave

By strapping the coax to the earth,ground or negative (or whatever) part of
the aerial,you will effectively
cancel out any gain or effect the 20' part had.
Obviously you dont have the space for a 'T' where the coax is the bottom bit
of the 'T' and the top
Parts are say 20' each way give ot take?
If thats no good,then how about feeding the coax to a longer wire closer to
the house and having
the ground wire going down to earth,vertically? If you could have the long
wire inclining up the
garden somewhat,it would be effectively an inverted-v antenna.Keeping it
horozontal would
leseen the tendancy to throw signals back over your house however.
Does this help?
G7EBY

"Doug Birky" wrote in message
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I'm putting up an offset dipole. I'm attaching a 4:1 balun. I'm running
RG-8 to the balun. The dipole will be attached at 20' and the other end
will
be about 40'. My question is can the coax be tie-straped to the short end
of the dipole antenna wire and run back with it toward the houes? This is
basically to keep a big loop from hanging down and also keeping the wife
happy since it would look much cleaner. I didn't know if this would have a
large impact on operation or not.

73
Doug / KC8YEC