[BC] Long Wire

[Scott Bailey]

How would I feed the tower? My unipole wires go up to about 85' and short out there. Really, the copperclad steel wires the engineer bought to make the unipole are too big and they are pulling on the angle iron crossarms at the top and bottom of the tower. The wires going up the tower need to be smaller, like what Nott, Ltd. uses.

The slant wire would feed from the ATU to and attach to a certain point at the tower. One wire makes mores sense that three. I use a larger sixe Heliax up to the transmitter inside the building, the I go down to the 1/2" size feeding the transmitter. 

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Scott Bailey
WMRO Radio, Gallatin, TN
  
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From: Kevin Raper <kj4hyd at gmail.com>
>
> Scott Bailey wrote:
> > Less maintenance once it is set up right, from what I hear.
> 
> What maintenance is there to 1/2" Heliax buried along side of a 4" 
> Copper Strap? That is all you need for 1KW on AM. I only used 1" Heliax 
> to feed my 160 Meter Dipole because I had some laying around left over 
> from another Radio Project.