Ken is correct (per normal!). When you are setting up a station or antenna
system, if you pay attention to ALL of the 0.19dB losses in your interface
cables and your coax, you are building your station interfaces to it's best
ability, i.e., minimum losses. To me, it is worthwhile to do this 1) because
you normally only have to do it once (in a great while) and 2) your making
sure the RF interfaces you build allow you to get the most efficiency out of
your station set up.
Tommy
W4BQF
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Ken Brown
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:38 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Popping Noise from Orion and Centurion
>Seems to me the human ear can barely detect a 1db change; this 0.19db loss
>is about 80% less than what the ear of a young person might be able to hear
>on a good day. Why worry?
>
It's not about worrying. It's about fully specifying the performance of
the equipment. If no spec is given, and it had, say 2 dB loss, you
wouldn't know if something is faulty, or if it is normal.
>
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