(:-)) I actually have a few "Twinax" connectors, both male and female. Same as PL-259 / SO-239's, except two pins.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, and ... 73! Ken On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Phil Kane <k2...@kanafi.org> wrote: > On 12/31/2011 11:34 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > >> It is just as easy to use two parallel lengths of coax with the shield >> grounded and the balanced feedline connected to the two center >> conductors. That will produce a shielded balanced line that you can >> bring into the shack just like a single coax. > > In the days when the FCC's mobile direction-finders consisted of a > rotatable "Finch" loop, the feedline was Twinax, two conductors within a > single shield resulting in a cable about the size of RG-11, fed into the > balanced antenna input of the receivers in use. > > I don't know if the cable or its connectors are readily available these > days. > -- > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > > >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
