[TowerTalk] Cable TV hardline question - for Beverages

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Fri Oct 29 22:52:42 EDT 2004


> To feed 3 or 4 Beverages, can I run 50 Ohm coax (RG-8X?)
> to the remote antenna switch (about 250'), and from there,
> use 75 Ohm CATV (bigger than RG-8, smaller than
> RG-213, old but free) to the Beverage transformer
> (another 100-200')?   Would there be any significant or
> noticeable performance degradation?

You can do almost anything you want with Beverage feedlines
as long as the shields have a solid connection and the
cables aren't high loss cables.

73 Tom




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