[TowerTalk] Double Coax Runs to Reduce Loss?

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Wed Dec 21 18:22:19 EST 2016


On Wed,12/21/2016 3:09 PM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> ##  75 ohm, kw rated twinlead would have been a lot lighter.

Is this still manufactured?  Belden discontinued it several decades ago. 
I found a 250 ft spool NOS at the Milwaukee hamfest in the '70s and 
added to my stash, figuring I would sometime find a use for it. I did, 
nearly 30 years later, to feed a dipole that I also wanted to load as a 
Tee vertical. I still have that line. I also have a few short lengths of 
heavily used Amphenol that's similar to it.

The Belden cable has fairly low loss at low frequencies, but rises 
quickly above 10 MHz.

73, Jim K9YC



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