"Free Band" wrote in message
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hey landshark what kind of coax you use i wanna put a a99. in an a tree
also .also what about grounding system thanks.ssb 2238 alabama 73s


I'm using RG213 with RG Mini 8 for a type of ground.
I took the center strand and attached it to the antenna, then
both the center strand and shield twisted together and attached
to a ground rod.

Landshark


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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:26:01 GMT, "Landshark" wrote:


"Free Band" wrote in message
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hey landshark what kind of coax you use i wanna put a a99. in an a tree
also .also what about grounding system thanks.ssb 2238 alabama 73s


I'm using RG213 with RG Mini 8 for a type of ground.
I took the center strand and attached it to the antenna, then
both the center strand and shield twisted together and attached
to a ground rod.

Landshark


That is a great idea. I am going to run nearly 300 feet of Bury-Flex. For both
the Imax and the HF dipole.

Someone here told me to use bury-flex. It was a great idea. Who was it?

Vinnie S.

"Vinnie S." wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:26:01 GMT, "Landshark"
wrote:


"Free Band" wrote in message
...
hey landshark what kind of coax you use i wanna put a a99. in an a tree
also .also what about grounding system thanks.ssb 2238 alabama 73s


I'm using RG213 with RG Mini 8 for a type of ground.
I took the center strand and attached it to the antenna, then
both the center strand and shield twisted together and attached
to a ground rod.

Landshark


That is a great idea. I am going to run nearly 300 feet of Bury-Flex. For
both
the Imax and the HF dipole.

Someone here told me to use bury-flex. It was a great idea. Who was it?

Vinnie S.

May have been me. I love mine and it's wife friendly as she can't see the
coax hanging around. It is pretty stiff stuff though, no heliax, but a good
idea to work with it when it's warm

Chad

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:22:09 -0500, Vinnie S.
wrote:

Anybody have one? I am going to stick it in a tree. There are tuning rings on
it. Anyone ever tune one of these? I am going at it alone when I install it. I
am going to use a climbing tree stand, and it will be impossible to tune it when
it is hung. If I tune it on the ground, will the SWR be drastically affected if
it is a couple feet off the ground, as opposed to when it is about 30 feet up?

Vinnie S.

Leave the tuning rings as they are. I put mine out the top of a
tree, and the antenna had a 1.1 SWR right out of th box.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:58:19 GMT, (Odd Ball) wrote:

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:22:09 -0500, Vinnie S.
wrote:

Anybody have one? I am going to stick it in a tree. There are tuning rings on
it. Anyone ever tune one of these? I am going at it alone when I install it. I
am going to use a climbing tree stand, and it will be impossible to tune it when
it is hung. If I tune it on the ground, will the SWR be drastically affected if
it is a couple feet off the ground, as opposed to when it is about 30 feet up?

Vinnie S.

Leave the tuning rings as they are. I put mine out the top of a
tree, and the antenna had a 1.1 SWR right out of th box.



A friend of mine is going to send me an Autek RF analyzer, so I can tune it
while in the tree.

Vinnie S.