On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:33:47 EDT, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>The coax and
>rotor cable were put up new in 1999. I figure that they are probably in need
>of replacement by now.
> Why are you changing them? You didn't cite a single problem. If they're
>working okay (e.g. swr is fine, rotator works), I don't see any reason to
>change them. It'd be a waste of time and money. Both cables have service
>lifes of a couple of decades or more.
I agree with Steve, K7LXC. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Last year, I helped pull down and dispose of N6RZ's antenna farm, which
included LOTS of coax, virtually all of it at least 20 years old. It LOOKS
pretty weathered, but it MEASURES just fine. I took some of it to a meeting of
our contest club to auction off, and everyone turned their noses up at it. So
I brought it back home and used the short lengths to build stubs. They all
measured just like brand new coax.
There were also longer lengths of big coax (RG17, etc.) and some LDF4 and
LDF5. That stuff also measures just fine, and is feeding my SteppIR and a 40M
wire Yagi.
73, Jim K9YC
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