[TowerTalk] CATV Hardline

[Frank Donovan]

Pete, 
If each of your connectors actually have .6 dB loss, they should be
getting red hot!  Are they extremely hot when u use that antenna?

73
Frank
W3LPL
donovanf@sgate.com

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 TOMK5RC@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 97-10-30 06:23:05 EST, n4zr@contesting.com writes:
> 
> << For whatever it's worth, my run of approximately 250 feet of 3/4"  CATV
>  hardline measures (with an Autek RF-1) to have 1.6 dB of loss at 28 MHz -
>  not nearly so good as the Handbook table says it should be (about .36
>  dB/100 fit).  Of course, this includes 2 home-brew UHF connectors.  I've
>  checked for moisture infiltration, etc., but this is about what the
>  installation measured right off the reel.   I wonder if others have
>  compared measurements of their actual installation with the Handbook table
>  -- I'd sure like to recoup that elusive "'nother dB."   
>  
>  73, Pete Smith N4ZR
>  n4zr@contesting.com 
>   >>
> How much of the loss can be attributed to the connectors?
> 
> Tom, K5RC/7


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