Amateur (Ham) Radio BS and Callsign Thread!

Good old 9913 has lower loss than LMR240 @150 and at 450 megs it significantly better That's what is on my personal tower for the VHF/UHF sticks. Yep it's a larger diameter that has a lot to do with it's lower loss (a good bit cheaper too). In short runs there is not a lot of difference between RG8X and LMR 240. We have had issues with LMR at repeater sites with water intrusion.

 

Yeah I got my fingers crossed especially if this continues on. Going to keep an eye out for it

 

An S-unit is 6dB, or supposed to be. Path loss (e.g. range) is very approximately the square root of the power ratio. Double the power you get 1.414 times the range. So losing 2 watts of 5 watts in feed line means you have roughly 3/4 of the range. It's not catastrophic but in this case using RG-174 probably negates any antenna gain you might have. In the case of the 60 feet of RG-8 I mentioned just means my antenna having 5.5 dB rated UHF gain really only has 4 dB. Just trade-offs. I would not worry about 10 feet of RG-174 either, so it's just reality vs theory.

 

Realized it was was too fat of a cable...Just ordered a J-pole from Arrow antenna; More like going with RG-8x and I need 100 ft not 10ft...that was a typo.

Thanks everybody.

 

Way more flexible. I really like the stuff I listed. Flexible. Decent numbers. Affordable.

 

Tw net?

 

what band?

 

RG-8X is more durable, a higher quality coax.

 

Maybe a 40m net in the evening?

 

That might work. I’ve been on a local 17M net at 7 each night.

 

Did you see that AU and NZ was getting into the east coast tonight? 17 and 20. I had about 30 seconds of full copy at greyline. Then poof. Gone.

 

Greyline is best time to get into Asia Islands... Aarg... want my HF antennas up so bad... Have my V/Uhf assembled, just needs coax. Need a calm wind day to put Dipole in air then ill have some HF fun. Hex would be next to assemble, Vert 40m antenna is another story...

 

We’ve had quite a bit come in. Argentina, Brazil, etc... My G5RV is laid out E-W so they tend to come in pretty clear for me when conditions are good. We’ve also been on 80 and have covered NH to PA on, what I believe is, ground wave.

 

Should check in on the 80m net on Sundays!

 

time and Fn?

 

If you have netlogger it's under Dave's dork den. 8am. No set freq. We hunt for what's available in the general portion

 

If you are EXTRA special, we start at 3.650MHz then move to a more General area.

 

More likely it is NVIS

 

Best to use quality compression connectors if you are not already for LMR400
http://www.rfcoaxconnectors.com/product-family-COMP-Pro.php