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Whatever some people call it, the proper name is cable TV trunk line or CATV aluminum hardline. It is the main trunk feeder that runs from pole to pole for miles down the road. Drop leads of RG-6 tap off of it and run into the customer's house etc. BTW, Jack VE1ZZ is a world class DXer. He is top of the class in low band DXing on 160m as well as 6m Jack uses CATV trunk line exclusively in his multitude of wire antennas and has many runs of several hundred feet. He splices his cable by using old style marrette connectors that have the clamping screw on the center connector. For the shield he uses hose clamps. To "weather proof" the splices he inverts a plastic pop bottle over the whole thing. It looks like crap, and defys all good engineering practices but guess what. It works and it has put him at the top of the worlds best DXers list.

<blockquote data-quote="Captain Kilowatt" data-source="post: 358154" data-attributes="member: 39">Whatever some people call it, the proper name is cable TV trunk line or CATV aluminum hardline. It is the main trunk feeder that runs from pole to pole for miles down the road. Drop leads of RG-6 tap off of it and run into the customer&#039;s house etc. BTW, Jack VE1ZZ is a world class DXer. He is top of the class in low band DXing on 160m as well as 6m Jack uses CATV trunk line exclusively in his multitude of wire antennas and has many runs of several hundred feet. He splices his cable by using old style marrette connectors that have the clamping screw on the center connector. For the shield he uses hose clamps. To &quot;weather proof&quot; the splices he inverts a plastic pop bottle over the whole thing. It looks like crap, and defys all good engineering practices but guess what. It works and it has put him at the top of the worlds best DXers list.<img src="http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00leYQvWtrJKpj/CATV-Trunk-Hardline-500-Coaxial-Cable.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 358154, member: 39"] Whatever some people call it, the proper name is cable TV trunk line or CATV aluminum hardline. It is the main trunk feeder that runs from pole to pole for miles down the road. Drop leads of RG-6 tap off of it and run into the customer's house etc. BTW, Jack VE1ZZ is a world class DXer. He is top of the class in low band DXing on 160m as well as 6m Jack uses CATV trunk line exclusively in his multitude of wire antennas and has many runs of several hundred feet. He splices his cable by using old style marrette connectors that have the clamping screw on the center connector. For the shield he uses hose clamps. To "weather proof" the splices he inverts a plastic pop bottle over the whole thing. It looks like crap, and defys all good engineering practices but guess what. It works and it has put him at the top of the worlds best DXers list. [IMG]http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00leYQvWtrJKpj/CATV-Trunk-Hardline-500-Coaxial-Cable.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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