[TowerTalk] 80 meter dipole

[Wes Attaway (N5WA)]

It looks like you have a lot of loss somewhere in the system, unless you
have a really long coax run.

If the run is only 100' or 150' then I don't think you would see such a flat
SWR curve unless either the coax is damaged or there is some other lossy
element in the system. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom
Osborne
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 7:36 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] 80 meter dipole

I recently put up a dipole for 80 and used some RG-6 CATV coax to feed 
it.  Good news is that I cut it for 3550 and the SWR is about 1.3:1 
there.  Bad news is that it stays pretty much the same all the way up 
the band.

Is the wide bandwildth because the coax is so lossy?  It is the double 
shielded stuff with 2-layers of foil and 1-layer of braid. 73
Tom W7WHY
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