[SixClub] new net

[Bob Royal]

Oops! To late! I whipped the J-pole back up using the rg6 this 
afternoon. The run is less than 60ft. And the coax was free.....Zero, 
Zip, Nada. Since we be workin short as of late, free won... I'll  swap 
it out at a later date. For now I just wanted to see if I could drag in 
the Monday night net with the extra antenna height. I put down the 6m J 
up in place  of my 11m ground plane.  18ft is now 35ft. Probably 45 or 
50 to the top of the antenna. The manuals to the old boat anchors I've 
been playing with did'nt seem to care to much whether it was 75 ohm or 
50. So  I thought I'd get a few opinions before blundering off but then 
the wind died down today and so I jumped right in blundering  while the 
blundering was good.  :-)
As Allways
Thanks for the input!!!
73' B.R.

Christopher Boone wrote:

> Use RG 8 or 9913 or better...remember 6 is VHF, not HF! Here, every 
> little bit helps....RG 6 is 75 ohm line....not 50ohms.....mismatch 
> causes higher loss coax....unless the line is so low, the loss + match 
> loss is lower than the equiv in 50 ohm you want to use (which is true 
> in CATV hardline vs RG8 or other coax :)
> So unless you have low loss CATV HARDLINE, use 50ohm COAX for your 
> projects on VHF..
>
> Chris
> WB5ITT
>
> Bob Royal wrote:
>
>> Seems some of the operators in Reno NV. have started a Monday night 
>> 6m net. 7pm pst. They start out on 52.525fm and move to 50.125ssb a 
>> little later. Thats all the details I have at the moment. I'm in the 
>> process of trying to get an antenna up higher in hopes of catching 
>> it. I have a pretty good size mountain range between me and them.... 
>> Barely made noise on my scanner last week.
>> Any comments on using RG-6 coax on 6? I was given a part roll  and 
>> was thinking about using it with a J-pole I have sitting around.
>> Other than that all is quiet in DM09ii....... 73'
>> Bob R.  kd7oan
>>
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