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