[TowerTalk] In Search of 2db

[K7LXC@aol.com]

In a message dated 05/26/2000 9:26:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, k1vr@juno.com 
writes:

>   Query. I have a two radio station with a lot of 50 ohm jumpers. It
>  works, honest. But some jumpers were assembled in the middle of the night
>  by tired operators. Some are 30 years old.  I doubt any of them was done
>  as well as W0UN or KC1XX would do it at his work bench. No jumper is
>  longer than 10 feet. See configuration below (which should look similar
>  to a lot of stations). What method do you recommend to test RG-213 or
>  RG-58 jumpers? Any chance I can pick up 1 dB by finding a "bad" jumper? 

     According to Press the Wireman, coax deteriorates the same even if 
stored indoors so I suspect that by replacing them you'd pick up some 
improvement. 

Cheers,   Steve   K7LXC
Tower Tech 

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