[Elecraft] RG-8X

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Mon Feb 26 16:04:09 EST 2018


On 2/26/2018 11:02 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
> I did inquire as to the application.  To feed a 6M yagi being a 6OWL6W.  My thinking, I would cringe at putting up a nice yagi such as this and not use the feedline with the lowest loss possible.  Most likely Andrew LDF4-50A hardline.

Me too!  The 350 ft run from my shack to the 3-el SteppIR is 7/8-in 
hardline, transitioning to a short length of flexible coax for the 
rotator loop. Scrounged the hard line used for roughly $1/ft.  Loss is 
about 1 dB on 6M.

73, Jim K9YC




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