I'm thinking about hanging a dipole from a roof gable to a tree. Of course the feed line connects
to the dipole in the center which presents a problem: If I drop the feed line straight down it will
end up in the middle of the yard where people walk and the grass is mowed.

Is it possible to run a coax feed line back to the house along one leg of the dipole, perhaps
suspended a foot or so below it?

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:24:49 GMT, "KJ4NTS"
wrote:

I'm thinking about hanging a dipole from a roof gable to a tree. Of course the feed line connects
to the dipole in the center which presents a problem: If I drop the feed line straight down it will
end up in the middle of the yard where people walk and the grass is mowed.

Is it possible to run a coax feed line back to the house along one leg of the dipole, perhaps
suspended a foot or so below it?

Hi OM,

Sure, it is possible. Many do and live comfortably with the odd
characteristics that follow from it; and it probably doesn't alter
their expectations of performance.

This, of course, suggests that you have left off a list of unexpressed
presumptions like wanting directionality, low SWR, no RF hot chassis,
and so on that follow as problems from such an arrangement.

One solution (although it may be difficult to manage for multi-band),
is an horizontal sleeve dipole.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC