[Towertalk] coax on new tower ( high desert )

[Jon Ogden]

on 10/7/02 4:09 PM, Steve Katz at stevek@jmr.com wrote:

> The "failure" has nothing to do with frequency, or an impedance bump.  The
> failure is dielectric breakdown that occurs with high power operation and a
> pinched dielectric.  It's happened thousands of times, to lots of people,
> and it's one of the several reasons that no "soft dielectric" cables are
> included in MIL-C-17.

I understand that.  I've never seen it happen with any of the setups that I
have done.  Maybe I'm just careful about my cable runs.

73,

Jon
NA9D

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