[TowerTalk] Grounding, Lightning & corona discharge

[Pete Smith]

At 02:04 PM 7/28/2004, Keith Dutson wrote:
>some folks make a
>full run of coax from antenna to shack entrance, with no barrel connectors
>in between, to reduce signal loss, particularly at 6 meters and above.


Before jumping on this last bit of advice, people would be well advised to 
search the Towertalk archive for "connector" and "loss", because the 
subject has been covered fully, exhaustively and even (gasp) 
quantitatively.  In short connector loss, particularly at HF, has been much 
overblown.


73, Pete N4ZR
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