Hi Folks, A few years back some 9913 I was using apparently got water in the coax. I say this because of fluctuating SWR issues and I noted the shield when cut into was almost 'black'. So for my mino
I don't know exactly what you mean by "dump power", but I suggest that you throw that nasty corroded coax in the garbage. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. ;-) Not unless you can figure out a way
Use the length, At the far end put it into a dummy load. Put your watt meter at the transmitter, make say 100 watts, move watt meter to the dummy load and see how many watts are there. Thats the loss
Author: "Chortek, Robert L." <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 05:29:27 +0000
Hi Terry, It seems to me that it ought to be fine to use the coax. The fact the coax has more loss than non-contaminated coax shouldnt matter, since the whole point is to dump the wattage as part of
Hi Bob, The issue I'm faced with is I have 168' to the base of my tower. The Comtek 4-square box is another 64' up the tower. To get to the wattmeter just outside my shack window is perhaps 15-20 mor
The last version of my elevated 40m 4-square (~2016-7?) was built with belden stuff that had the black coating all along the length. I buffed it up and used crimp connectors. Worked great. My reaso