[TowerTalk] Grounding, Lightning & corona discharge

[Keith Dutson]

It's not advice.  It's a statement of fact.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith [mailto:n4zr at contesting.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:36 PM
To: keith at dutson.net; 'TowerTalk'
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Grounding, Lightning & corona discharge

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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