I was Wrong. I have RG-214 double shielded coax running throughout. John
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "W3ML" <w...@...> wrote: > > Again let me say thanks for all the help. > > In the 30 years of hamming, this is all new to me and I am learning something > new every day I play with this. And yes, it is really fun, to be able to > learn something new about our hobby. > > I have all RG 213 coax as harness cable for the cans and to the radio for > transmit and from radio through bandpass to the can on receive. > > I have been measuring the swr out of the radio. One of you said that I need > to move the meter to the other side of the duplexer and check it there. I > will do that again. I did check it there before, but have been leaving the > meter in line between the radio and duplexer. > > Right now we have it running at 55 watts (out of radio) and everyone sounds > great, except one and that may be his antenna as there is a little frying > noise on him. > > One ham on the other side of county did say the reading went up from S2 to S5 > so he was happy and a ham in another county about 27 miles away said we are > 20 over at his place. > > > This is a great improvement, because when it was ran around 10 to 20 watts > the noise covered everyone up. > > Thanks gain, I really do appreciate the help. I hope everyone has a great > week. > > 73 > John > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck Kelsey" <wb2edv@> wrote: > > > > Double shielded -- specifically what type? > > > > Chuck > > WB2EDV > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "W3ML" <w3ml@> > > To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> > > Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 6:52 PM > > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Radio for repeater use > > > > > > >> > > > All coax is double shielded from radio to the hardline. > > > > > > > > >
