"Bob Miller" wrote in message ...
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One of my antennas is a 20 meter end fed wire, and I tune it with an
old Heathkit AC-1 antenna tuner, which is made especially for random
length, end fed wires. A modern equivalent would be something like the
MFJ-16010 random wire tuner, which at $49.95 doesn't cost much more
than some of the 9-1 baluns I see advertised :-)

It would require bringing the random wire into your residence, and
then running a short length of coax from the tuner to the receiver. I
understand some wouldn't like that because of in-house noise, but
there are always trade-offs to anything.

bob
k5qwg


Is there a detailed description, with possible diagrams, explaining how to strip,
connect coax and a random wire... i.e. no balun, direct random wire to coax
connection (coax leading into tuner after that)