I'm renting a basement suite and have an Icom 706mkII & MFJ-949E antenna tuner, and I need a better HF antenna arrangement than I already have (without going to a tower, hi). I would like to run a balanced feedline from the tuner to the feedpoint but the feedline has to go from my shack to where the feedpoint is, and that involves crossing a cement path --- in other words, because the feedline has to lie on top of cement it can't really be anything other than coax. I've put tons of pictures and explanations and diagrams on my webspace at:
"http://members.shaw.ca/cyberhun/ham.htm"
--- please take a look and if you have any ideas let me know. I'm somewhat at a loss as to where to go with it now. I'm thinking the only way to significantly improve on the current arrangement is to run a feedline up from my shack, to the south-west corner of the roof. This would eliminate the need for coax (across the path) and then run radiating elements from the feedpoint to the south-west corner of the yard, and from the feedpoint to the south-east corner of the roof, maybe?
73 from canada
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