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Re: [CQ-Contest] Station Re-Build - Coax

To: NJ6G Dennis Moore <dennis@mail4life.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Station Re-Build - Coax
From: "Bernie McClenny, W3UR" <bernie@dailydx.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 09:10:09 -0400
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Dennis
As one of the ops at W3LPL we do it 24/7 in all the contests as we have two 
rigs and two ops on all bands. When one guys is CQing the other is listening to 
other parts of the band.

Bernie

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> On Mar 16, 2019, at 12:47 AM, Dennis Moore <dennis@mail4life.net> wrote:
> 
> How often will you be transmitting and receiving at the same time?
> 
> Dennis NJ6G
> 
> On 3/15/2019 10:29, David Aslin G3WGN wrote:
>> Hi Frank,
>> Thanks for saving me from a 'terrible practice'.  I hadn't considered the 
>> potential for noise/signal injection via bundled cable screens, other than 
>> K9YC's fine work on keeping common mode currents out.
>> The first 80m/250ft of my coax runs from the shack are in 4 inch conduit.  I 
>> have laid 4 runs of conduit a couple of feet underground.  I'm planning to 
>> put RX coax runs in one of the conduits, TX runs (Heliax) in two of the 
>> others and control cable in the 4th run. So RX runs will at best be 4-20 RG6 
>> cable diameters from the Heliax. Does that sound like enough separation from 
>> your experience?
>> 73, David G3WGN  M6O  WJ6O
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