[TowerTalk] What coax is this?

Gedas w8bya at mchsi.com
Wed Aug 7 14:44:11 EDT 2019


I like using RG-316, silver coated conductors with Teflon dielectric 
coax. It is small, will handle legal limit at 10 MHz and great for 
winding lots of turns on small cores. If anyone needs any contact me off 
line as I have LOTS of it on a NOS roll.

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On 8/7/2019 10:42 AM, Mark - N5OT wrote:
> But boy is RG303 pricey!
>
> Even still, I make my UN-UNs and line isolators out of it because the 
> little beads that fit around it are so much cheaper than the big beads 
> that fit around RG213!
>
> Mark N5OT
>
>
> On 8/7/2019 9:19 AM, N4ZR wrote:
>> Yup, you and K1XX agree on this - thanks!
>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>> On 8/7/2019 9:26 AM, Paul Christensen wrote:
>>> Pete,
>>>
>>> When faced with the problem of getting enough turns through a core, 
>>> I often use RG303 (equiv. Belden #84303).  It's O.D. is 0.17-inch 
>>> and its materials composition is in the same class as RG142.  RG303 
>>> is used in several Alpha amplifier models. You'll also see it used 
>>> in several models from Balun Design.
>>>
>>> Paul, W9AC
>>>


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