On 10/9/19 2:19 PM, Dave Thompson wrote:
> Besides cutting it shorter and installing a new connector can I coil up
> the bottom and if so do it at the bottom of the tower or where it goes into
> the house. The SWR is OK but I need to get it off the ground.
Cut it and reterminate it.
SWR doesn't always matter when the coax is long, 200' of LMR400 on 440 is
about 6 db of loss, and that makes for 12 db of return loss, or ~1.6:1 VSWR.
You could leave the coax shorted at the end and it would still show a 1.6:1
VSWR on your meter in the shack.
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