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Re: Topband: RG-6 Coaxial Cable...

To: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>,"TopBand List" <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: RG-6 Coaxial Cable...
From: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:58:47 -0400
List-post: <mailto:topband@contesting.com>
RG6 works fine for transmitting at 1.5 KW.

KM1H tipped me off to this back in the '80s and I started using some -- 
scrounged from the scrap pile at a local CATV yard -- for my 80 and 40 m delta 
loop arrays.This was not new cable but stuff that had been in service for some 
time.

Carl used his with F connectors at full power but I either used PL259s or just 
hardwired it into relay boxes or the antenna -- either screw-down connections 
in the relay box or twist-and-tape of the shield and solder the center 
conductor at the antenna. I had some of these in service for 10-15 years (at 
two different QTHs) without any problem. Using the cheap tape, of course.

73/Jon AA1K

www.aa1k.us

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