Re: [IRCA] Antenna question

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

You may get better answers than mine but I ground the end near the receiver 
so it won't pick up noise and the other end hooked to the antenna isnot 
connected to anything and sealed so moisture, water, etc. can't get in. 
There was a good article in Popular Communications last month (I think) 
about ways to seal coax.

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma

>From: "Jim Pogue" <jpogue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: [IRCA] Antenna question
>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:20:21 -0600
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>OK, this is probably going to sound like a dumb question to a lot of you,
>but I've never been one to shy away from asking dumb questions when I don't
>know the answer.
>
>
>
>Background: I am planning to put up a new external long wire about 50 feet
>in length. In the past I have always fed long wires with just another 
>length
>of insulated wire, but this time I plan to feed the signal to my Quantum
>Phaser with RG-58 or similar coax.
>
>
>
>The question: When I attach the feedline at the end of the long wire, I 
>will
>solder the coax center wire to the antenna wire. But what does one do with
>the braid or shield at the same location adjacent to the antenna wire?
>Should it be attached to anything, sealed over with black electrician's
>tape, or what? If I was putting up a dipole the answer would be easy, but
>I've never fed a long wire with coax before.
>
>
>
>Thanks for your help folks - hopefully I'm never too old to learn.
>
>
>
>Jim Pogue KH2AR/WPE9HLJ/KG6DX1A
>
>Memphis, Tennessee USA
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>
>NRD-535, ICF-2010
>
>Wellbrook LA5030 loop, attic longwire
>
>Quantum phaser
>
>
>
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