[Elecraft] XG50 temp comp for KX3

Walter Underwood wunder at wunderwood.org
Sat Jun 24 21:06:23 EDT 2017


Should not be a problem. Good ol’ RG-58 has 0.083 dB loss in three feet of cable at 50 MHz. That is about 2% of the signal. Another 2% won’t matter.

wunder
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Walter Underwood
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> On Jun 24, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Thorpe, Jeffrey <jthorpe at liberty.edu> wrote:
> 
> I am going to be doing the temperature compensation procedure for my KX3. The sheet for the XG50 says I can use a 3' 50-ohm cable. This probably seems like a silly question, but is it a big deal if I use a 6' cable? Is the signal so weak I have to worry about that extra (???) loss?
> 
> J
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