[TowerTalk] More information about my problem; . Re: Heliax acting strangely: Help?

[Dave Sublette]

The Rig Expert AA-600 has TDR capabilities.  I don’t know about the other, lower frequency range models.

K4TO
> On Oct 16, 2017, at 12:16 AM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
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> On 10/15/2017 3:59 PM, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
>> I was wondering why I did not get any follow up emails to my original.
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> I slept through it. Sorry. First suggestion is to do a good TDR on the line. If you don't own instrumentation to do it, cast about among local techie types for someone to bring his instrument over and do the measurement. This will tell you the location of all splices and of any other faults.
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> Second suggestion is to bite the bullet and 1) learn what connectors are needed for the line you have, 2) buy them, and 3) install them. Here's a short applications note sharing some things I learned  going through this exercise in my station several years ago. All of my hard line is scrounged, and from multiple sources.
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> http://k9yc.com/HardLine.pdf
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> 73, Jim K9YC
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