I believe that Bird sells a 100 ft cable and will make what ever you
might want, for a price. Check there web page.
isn't the cable RG 58 ????
Art
KB7WW
K0FF wrote:
>
> I have a rack mounted amp in the basement, under the hamshack and it has a
> rack mounted Bird hooked to it. I wanted to watch the output from the shack,
> so installed another dual section bird line section, and ran some shielded
> cable upstairs. About 15 ft max.
> Didn't have any cables made up that long, so spliced together 3 old Collins
> patchcables with RCA plugs per lead,and ran them to the dual needle Weston
> meter upstairs, which is mounted in a Bud box.
> No problem, everything as it should be. Then made and installed 2 nice
> looking jumpers the correct length from RG174, and everything got goofy. The
> meter barely reads anything.
>
> Cables check AOK with an Ohmmeter and have about 1.5 Ohms round trip
> resistance. The capacitance is quite high on the little coax though.
>
> The Collins cables have a little lower resistance, but much lower
> capacitance.
>
> Why would this be?
>
> What would you have to do to monitor a real remote amp, say 300 feet away?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts on this.
>
> K0FF (George)
>
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