Hi Ron,
You are right about RG-58. In the early 80's i had occasion to feed a half
wave trapped sloper on 40/80 meters. It was hanging off of a 160 ft. tower
and the run was at least 100 ft. It had a low vswr and with 700 watts into
it on c.w. ,it made the coax "warm and limp."
Considering the low cost of RG-8X, i'd use that these days ,rather than
RG-58, for most applications where RG-58 might be considered.
73 Roy Lincoln WA4DOU
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On Sun, 29 Aug 99 15:23:18 PDT, Ron Youvan wrote:
>
> Hi:
> << I'm using 100 ft. of RG-58 >>
>
> I have heard a lot of HAMs say they are using RG-58/U
> with 1 kw, with out any problem, even back in the AM days,
> but it will become toast, with a high SWR, (LIKE) if you crank it up on
the wrong band
> it will be ruined. If you can afford the down time to replace it there is
no problem.
>
> 73 (= Best Regards) de Ron ka4inm@qsl.net
> VISIT my HAM WEB SITE at: http://www.qsl.net/ka4inm
>
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