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Re: [TenTec] OT: Field Day Drill

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Field Day Drill
From: Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:46:45 -0500
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Lowering the contest power to 100 watts greatly mitigates possible inter station interference.

We used double shielded coax this year which allowed 3 100 watt stations to have 3 coaxes run together to exit the room at the same window. I did not expect it to help all that much and was using it for the pre made lengths of it I had. Only if the 20m phone station got very low in the phone band did the nearby CW station seem to desense the receiver. That was a simple QSY to fix. No band pass filters were used. Antennas were a vertical against a inverted vee about 125 feet apart.

I am certainly glad I had the chance to use double shielded coax.
The vertical had a tuner at the antenna with remote cable control, and the doublet had a coax choke at its feedpoint, of RG8x

-Stuart Rohre
K5KVH

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