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From: "Jim Brown"
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: 1000 feet 5/8" hardline or 600ohm True Ladder lin
Exactly right -- it's because the current is much smaller for the same
power.
Correct Jim.
With an RF a
Back in 1997 N6BV and I did some testing using "ladder line" (not the real
600 ohm stuff) and some 9:1 baluns on each end. We were looking at a site
in YV where the beach was about 1000' from the hotel room. We tested the
following:
- loss in back to back baluns
- loss in 100' of ladder line and
On 4/29/2014 8:00 AM, Kenneth Silverman wrote:
We lost the data but I seem to remember the total loss on 80/160 with 1000' of
line was negligible. Maybe in the 2 dB range on 10m with 1000' of ladder line.
I suspect few here would consider 2dB negligible. i don't. N6BT says 2dB
is a lot.
On
Rune,
Back in 1997 N6BV and I did some testing using "ladder line" (not the real
600 ohm stuff) and some 9:1 baluns on each end. We were looking at a site
in YV where the beach was about 1000' from the hotel room. We tested the
following:
- loss in back to back baluns
- loss in 100' of ladder lin
