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Re: [TowerTalk] LMR600 male DIN

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] LMR600 male DIN
From: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 10:38:50 -0700
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For my Tessco account, I'm seeing the same price $3.11 for RFS LC78-50JA-A7

I found AVA5-50 for the same price from another supplier a while ago. Every "super deal" price I've seen on RFS at Tessco was "no stock".

Digging a bit into the specs

DC resistance ohms/K-ft total weight % vs LDF5 conductivity % vs LDF5

AVA5 center .41 shield .34 .75 (0.30 lb/ft) 91 91 RFS LC78 center .47 shield .47 .94 (0.28 lb/ft) 85 72 LDF5-50A center .32 shield .36 .68 (0.33 lb/ft) 100 100

Which is contrary to experience that AVA shield is much thinner than LDF5. So what is different about the shield copper?

And if losses are resistance driven at HF, how can the loss per 100 ft at 10MHz be essentially the same for all three and the lowest resistance cable have the highest loss?

loss db/100ft @ 10MHz

AVA5-50               0.105
LCF78-50JA-A7    0.105
LDF5-50A             0.112

One wonders......

Grant KZ1W


On 9/4/2016 5:16 AM, StellarCAT wrote:
I'm signed in at Tessco - I can't find this specific part number and the lowest price I'm seeing is $3.11 for the 50JAA7 (list of $4.75).

Gary
K9RX


-----Original Message----- From: Bryan Fields
Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2016 11:53 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] LMR600 male DIN

On 9/3/16 10:45 PM, Bob K6UJ wrote:
What do you think of this stuff ?  It sells for about one third of 7/8
Heliax and very close in loss.

http://www.rfsworld.com/websearchecat/datasheets/?q=LCF78-50JA-A0

It's basically identical to LDF heliax. It's about 1.80/ft from Tessco now. RFS brand connectors are $30 each. I used it to build out a repeater site a
few months back, it's great stuff.

It's the reason the value of used heliax needs to be re-evaluated.

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