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Re: length of coax
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Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:56:42 -0600
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Jery, If you have to, you have to!!  Use good quality coax.  But on 
HF, 200 feet is doable.  Use RG8x or better - a good ham store could 
make recommmendations.
Pat, K9JAuAt 08:32 AM 11/26/2007, you wrote:
>I finally got a tower.  40 ft.  I now have a problem though.  I can only
>put the tower in one place.  I will need to run abount 200 of coax to
>get from the top of the tower to the radio.  I realize that the shorter
>the run the better the reception and probably the transmition.  How much
>of a loss will I experience?  I guess what I am trying to ask is can I
>live with the loss?

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