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Re: [TowerTalk] Double Coax Runs to Reduce Loss?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Double Coax Runs to Reduce Loss?
From: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:33:33 +0000
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Mike,

This member of the "TT community" says that, if you parallel connect the two lengths - outer to outer, and centre to centre, at each end - you'll have a 25 Ohm line with _the exact same_ matched loss as one of the individual lengths.

But if you had a lossless 2:1 transformer at each end and were operating in a 50 Ohm system, you'd overall have _half_ the loss.

Steve G3TXQ



On 18/12/2016 17:48, rfman45 wrote:
I was at a hamfest recently and a seller there was discussing how he uses two 
equal length runs of the same coax (an LMR type) to halve his losses on a long 
run to a distant tower some 300 or so feet away. His point was that he had a 
lot of this type of coax around and therefore it was better to do this than to 
buy something more efficient.


I never heard this before. What does the TT community say?


Mike  W2LO



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