Jon wrote:
I live in a similar location to you and have found the 450 Ohm ladder line
to be pretty useless in the wind. It seems to break every couple of months
and I have to keep repairing it.

That's true for the solid copper wire stuff. But
I have used the #14 stranded stuff ever since it
was introduced and it has never broken. AZ and
TX have their share of wind.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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I've been looking over the options and now have decided to have the
ladder line drop pretty much straight down to an LDG RT-11 remote
tuner. Ladder line will be 22 feet long which will put the RT-11 and
the 1:1 balun up out of harm's way on a treetrunk facing the woods. I'm
going to direct bury coax and use some 18-10 direct burial irrigation
wire for the controls.

This will keep the ladder line out of the shack and also make it more
stealthy neighbor-wise.

Hope to have it all on the air with an /AG call by mid-April!

tnx
jtm