[Elecraft] KAT500 antenna port isolation

Bob McGraw K4TAX rmcgraw at blomand.net
Mon Jul 9 23:19:24 EDT 2018


All this doesn't speak well for the quality of the dummy load or coax jumpers. 

Bob, K4TAX


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> On Jul 9, 2018, at 10:01 PM, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/9/2018 7:12 PM, K8TE wrote:
>> 
>> BTW, I have made a 75m QSO on a dummy load.  I think I was using Radio Shack
>> coax back then (in the 1970's when I worked for the company).
> 
> When I lived about three miles away from Mt. San Bruno south of San
> Francisco, I routinely worked all of the VHF and UHF repeaters there
> using a dummy load!  Amazing what a clear eye-ball path can do.
> 
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
> 
> From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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