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Re: [TowerTalk] Measuring Coax Loss

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Measuring Coax Loss
From: Cqtestk4xs@aol.com
Reply-to: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:41:57 EST
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In a message dated 2/12/2010 1:17:49 AM Greenwich Standard Time,  
k5go@cox.net writes:

3 dB is  very large regardless of how many you are starting  with.


You bet it is...depending on whose S meter you're looking at it  could be 
close to an S unit.  Out here when the hordes of EU stations call,  many 
times they are S-3/4.  It doesn't take too many dB to rise above the  
pack....like around 3 db.  Kinda like a shorty 40 vs a  dipole.
 
Bill KH7XS
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