[Elecraft] Coax Loss Figures

[Pete Smith]

This reflector has more off-topic posts than any I've ever been involved 
with.  Perhaps the solution (other than the delete key) would be for 
people not to reply.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 6/23/2010 3:19 AM, Brett Howard wrote:
> Yea I know I'm going way overkill and I was doing all the calculations
> by hand of total loss and at a 7:1 SWR (which is entirely possible on
> this 43 ft vertical) the loss at 30Mhz can get kinda ugly... I've not
> modeled it fully but on all bands but on 20 meters its 7:1 and on 40
> meters its 3:1...
>
> I think I'm just going to call it a day and use the LMR400...  But its
> fun to overthink this stuff...  Article looks nice I can see I'm going
> to be up for a few more minutes! ;)
>
> ~Brett (N7MG)
>
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 23:34 -0700, Jim Brown wrote:
>    
>> Check out
>>
>> http://audiosystemsgroup.com/Coax-Stubs.pdf
>>
>> 100 ft of almost any decent RG8-size or RG11-size coax is just fine for a
>> Field Day antenna on the HF bands. On the lower HF bands, RG8X-size coax is
>> just fine.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>
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