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My usual I am not an engineer and don't rely on this info discalimer applies, but I have seen some comericial towers intalled on what appear to be large free standing concrete structures that don't a
For what it is worth a number of years ago I found that the measured loss of various forms of new Belden cable at 440 Mhz was noticeably less (maybe 20 % or so if memory serves ?) than the published
Don't burn down the building and don't kill / injure the occupants sound like a reasonable design criteria to me for the grounding of my amateur radio instalation. The protection of my amateur radi
I concur, personally I'm satisfied with a continous piece where possible (ie. one piece of wire is run thru the various lugs as opposed to being spliced) of number 3 copper wire run outside the house
Yes, I have measured actual coax loss using both dummy loads and antennas at the end of the cables. IIRC in almost all (maybe all ?) cases (baring obvious issues with connectors and adapters) the mea
Hi, I've typically used RG 214 for rotor loops with good success. I've more or less run out of RG 214 and am wondering about the pros and cons of Belden 9913F7 (the newer style of 9913) and flexible
Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. Re the length I typically run the "rotor loop" all the way to the antenna feed point (rather than just using it to by pass the rotor.) The suggestion to u
Gerald: In most cases double or single shielding is probably a non issue for me at HF so long as I use "high quality" single shielded cable. That being said, I have found that on occasion some single
Re RG400. I use that for most of my jumpers and patch cords these days. A local electronic supply store stocks a generic version by the foot, and they also stock the correctly sized ferrules that all