Ok so I moved into this home a year ago and am paying for it so it is not a rental. I want to put in some form of pass through for coaxial cable. In my last home about 8 years ago I had used long SO239's that where basically long and female on both ends. I either need something like that again or I need some form of plate that I can mount conventional SO239's too and just soldier some coax to to make a plate mount for the inside and outside of my home. I have only done this once before so I am very much an not super experienced at this. I do not use ladder line at this point just coax. I am going to take classes from the ARRL at my local Red Cross this winter so I want to plan ahead even though I only use CB at this time. I am planning on using 10,11,12, 6 meter for sure. I would rather do this during the Summer while the weather is nice and I want to buy what I need in advance and build everything prior to cutting or drilling.
I like HF voice and the randomness of it all.
I have a simple 50 foot TV tower on hand I plan to install it was free. Due to terrible experiences with Michigan weather I will more than likely stick to vertical single band omni-directional ground planes and multi and single band dipoles.
In my youth I when I was skinny still had decent knee's and ankles and did not mind working on towers I freq. was paid to climb up towers and fix beams and replace rotor and the like. Now that I am older and fatter and have no feeling in my foot other than pain I try to avoid towers or working on pitched roofs and the like! LOL
As always thank you for your help and experience and any links or images!!
My advice would be for you to find yourself an Elmer.
Elmer - a knowledgeable ham that can guide you in your journey into amateur radio.
Having no experience, you will encounter a lot of hard knocks along the way, since what you intend to do, isn't easy.
The easiest part is getting the amateur radio license.
Why wait to attend a class, when you can buy the book, study, get the license right now?
What you are going to find is that your goal is unrealistic, since 10 / 12 meters isn't open right now and isn't going to be open again for another 7 more years. We are at solar minimum right now and this really screws up the higher HF frequencies - 10 / 12 / 15 / 17 meters.
Instead of putting all your eggs into one basket and then finding out that it doesn't work. Find the knowledgeable Elmer and listen to what that person has to say.
What you are going to find is that some type of Off Center Fed antenna - such as the HY Power Antenna Company 80 or 160 meter antenna is probably the antenna you will need, if you want to operate and listen to more then just local.
If I had to choose between the best transceiver and a G5RV antenna or a mid level transceiver and a really good antenna, I would take the mid level transceiver and the really good antenna 100% of the time! HF - you are mainly dealing with noise. Ambient noise caused by the atmosphere and by local emitters - grow lights, plasma televisions, arcing electric company lines. bad transformers, light dimmer switches in your neighbors houses, door bell transformers, electrical noise from motor brush - vac sweepers, mixers, blenders, circular saws etc.
You need to have a realistic goal, a really good transceiver with adequate filtering and a really good antenna.
If you are going to have multiple antennas, maybe it is time to get out the demolition hammer and poke a hole in the side of your house foundation and put a 3 inch plastic pipe and elbows into the foundation. Drill holes in a pipe cap so you can install and remove the coax anytime, instead of trying to use a pass through window mount. You need to make provisions for using ground stakes, Polyphasers etc, to keep lightning from coming into your home through the coax. You can't just run the coax straight from the antenna to the radio - like you did when you played CB. A good vertical antenna will still get you 10 / 12 / 15 meters - as long as the transceiver has a good built in antenna tuner.
My best advice is for you to save your money until you can afford a Kenwood TS 590SG - $1300.00, stay away from ICOM and Yaesu and cheap Chinese junk and old obsolete transceivers that are unsupported by the manufacturer. A General Class License is a must in today's world, since about the only thing you are going to be able to do with a Tech would be occasional band openings on 6 meters SSB and UHF / VHF FM..
If I was going to spend all that money to become a ham, I wouldn't skimp on the radio or the power supply or the coax or the antennas. If FM is what you want to do, then I am just wasting my time telling you all this.
You could quite possibly put up your 50' tower and put a double mount at the top and space out a old Solorcon or IMAX on one side and a Diamond X510 on the other and play FM and 10 meters, but you will quickly run out of people to talk to - since you will be limited to about a 50 mile range - playing FM.
The only experience I have had with 2 meter / 70 cm SSB is the last VHF contest, where I had the opportunity to operate a brand new ICOM 7100. I found it's controls chintzy, it's display too bland and its audio - not as good as my Kenwood 590.
I realize that the question was - how can I pass thru the coax, but these are all considerations you need to be aware of if you want to become a ham. Had I had someone to teach me these things when I first became a ham, I wouldn't have 6 - 3/4 inch holes drilled through the plate of my house, the plate being 14 inches thick solid wood - that all the other boards are nailed to!
One antenna leads to two, and two leads to four and four leads to 6 pretty quick when you get into different bands and modes using beams, verticals and dipole antennas.
