> I saw something somewhere about using coax as ladder line to get out of your
> house. >Seems like the center leads of a pair of coax were connected as if
> they were the ladderline at >the tuner and the shields tied together and then
> to ground at the station. The ends outside of >the house then had the two
> center leads tied to the real ladderline and the shields tied >together at
> that point also.
Yes, you can do this to make balanced shielded line, but it doesn't
buy you a whole lot. It has basically the same loss as a single coax
run, which can be quite a lot if you're using open wire or window line
to feed a multiband antenna with a tuner.
73,
Dan
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