[Towertalk] There are no dumb questions on Tower Talk, only dumb answers!

[Mark]

Well .. hmmm .. MY experience.. like, 35 years worth of gluing aerials
together, in one form or another ... Using UHF  Barrels, etc, should be
minimized   FYI ..  .. UHF connectors, as in PL-259  es S0-239,  the UHF
means "Universal High Frequency" ... Not Ultra High Frequency .. {surprise?
old fart here }  Comes from the big one, WWII  --- .. ahhh .. anyway .. 75M?
stack them coax pieces together.. and, as others here have posted, on 15M up
.. NOT!  Go buy some coax worthy of the name!   73  -- Mark, AA6DX
From: "Jim White" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Lee Noonan" <vk2lee@maxnet.net.au>; <W8JI@contesting.com>; "Steve G."
<stevekz9g@speakeasy.net>
Cc: <Towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] There are no dumb questions on Tower Talk, only
dumb answers!


> while the perfect splice is non apparent at HF according to Tom, W8JI and
> others - in my real world I say minimized the connectors, minimize the
> splices...they are only potential failure points, especially for an
Amateur
> like me.
>
> K4OJ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Noonan" <vk2lee@maxnet.net.au>
> To: <W8JI@contesting.com>; "Steve G." <stevekz9g@speakeasy.net>
> Cc: <Towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:17 AM
> Subject: : [Towertalk] There are no dumb questions on Tower Talk, only
dumb
> answers!
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I am renewing ALL My coaxial cables etc starting tomorrow, after a
> Lightning
> > Strike many months ago,  and naturally I have been reading this topic
with
> > Much Interest..... I have always used RG213  previously (well RG8 years
> ago)
> > from the Antenna switches in the shack to the antennas.  Now I am going
to
> > run Belden 9913 from the Shack to the top of the tower... where it will
be
> > connected to RG213 with "N" connectors & from there to the antennas.
> The
> > 9913 braid will be grounded at the top of the tower and just before it
> > leaves the tower to enter the house.   So I have come to the conclusion,
> > that its OK to do this, rather than run RG213 all the way from the shack
> to
> > the antennas.......
> > I'm only using 100w from an FT920 and the run from the shack to the
> antennas
> > is 23 meters.
> >   Thanks for the input Guys, Much Appreciated.....
> >
> > Lee Noonan VK2LEE
> >
> > http://www.qsl.net/vk2lee/
> > http://www.qrz.com/vk2lee/
> >
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