Re: How to get RG-213/U from shack to exterior

Hi John,

It's too bad your window does not lend itself to the spacer-with-holes
approach, as I was also going to suggest that. Does that non-removable
screen have a wide frame? If so, maybe you could go through holes
in a window spacer, then through holes in the screen frame.

In any case, you could save yourself one of those holes in the wall by
letting your "ground" wire and the coax share one hole.

Better yet, you could forget about the "ground" wire altogether--at least
if you have a third-wire ground in your AC sockets. A long "ground"
wire will be too puny and inductive to be any kind of RF ground. And
if you have a power ground through the AC socket, adding a parallel
ground path will just confuse things, increase your lightning risk, and
possibly put you into a code violation.

I have only AC-socket power grounds in my second floor shack, and
I run QRO on 80 through 10 with no problems.

73, Ed, W6LOL

"John N9JG" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:db78ck$uvf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> My shack is on the second floor, and I will be feeding a vertical with
> RG-213/U. In addition to the antenna feed line, I will also need to run a
> wire from the shack to a ground rod. The room housing the shack has one
> window, which is just to the left of the equipment table, and the window
is
> an aluminum single-hung type. The house wall has aluminum siding on the
> exterior.
>
> My current plan is to drill two holes, one for the coax and one for the
> ground wire, in the wood frame that is just below the bottom of the
window.
> I expect to sell this house in the next year or two, so I want to be able
to
> easily patch over any holes I have made in the wall.
>
> Any advice and information will be gratefully received.
>
>



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