Ridge I give up on you and your enablers. If you choose to believe you are right and a few centuries of collective experience and scores of physicists are all wrong than all that remains is you feel comfortable in your delusion. Byeeeee.
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You say that based on YOUR enablers now don't you-or should I say minions-it's ok no big loss-stay out of my threads-I don't need the aggravation. Arrogant.
By the way stop acting like you aren't getting my point in all this-you know precisely what my point is here. You just like stirring up crap. Everyone knows it. I like it a whole lot better when I don't have to deal with you..
WHo is my enabler here anyway? prcguy? Why? Because he doesn't follow you around like a puppy too? Makes ya real mad huh? Weak.
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Ridgescan- Some people here are very anal about stuff, and will nitpick a subject to death, such as using RG-6 coax. I used your setup a couple of times when I had to (When I was starting out and my outside antennas came down in a storm), and it does work, but it appears to me you have room up there for a simple longwire, and used with a cheap tuner, it would blow away the discone, which is a poor antenna, even for the freqs it's supposed to be used on. I have a longwire in my attic, about 12 feet above ground, and with 20db attenuation on the radio, it still outpulls the discone, except from about 27MHZ on up, That's without a tuner.
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Hey ratboy-appreciate your coming in here
My main concern with running one on that roof is I am in an apt building and I worry about a TV tech or plumber tangling his leg in it an falling 3 stories. FWIW this thing is doing an adequate job between the clean SNR and the amount of stuff I get. At this point, a longwire would make me the absolute king of HF receiving stations anywhere! Not to mention the R75 is a hell of a radio-I thought of putting red or yellow plastic warning tape on a longwire like every 2 feet...but I thought there's always the time where a workman will be immersed in what he's doing and won't pay attention. So hence the compromise.Anyways, how many feet is your longwire?
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The longwire in the attic is about 50 feet long, maybe 60, as it zig-zags back and forth all the way from the front of the attic to the back. It's a long house, but I'm not sure how long it is up there. I have a sloper outside, and it's still working OK, but the coax is starting to show it's age (about 10 years) and it will either get new coax, or it will be replaced entirely. I have a slinky dipole all set to go if I retire it. I had a slinky longwire years ago, with several soldered together (They solder really easy), and stretched out on a rope. I had to shorten it up, as it was so potent the nearby AM station was overloading all my receivers, even with a tuner and attenuation on. Once I got it cut down to about 2 slinkys, about 50', it was a great antenna, especially for the 5 bucks two slinkys cost back then. I fed it with RG6, and it lasted over 10 years before it finally came apart from old age. I tried out the slinky dipole inside the house and it seemed to work very well, and seems to be decently made.
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