Should not be a problem. Good ol’ RG-58 has 0.083 dB loss in three feet of cable at 50 MHz. That is about 2% of the signal. Another 2% won’t matter.
wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Jun 24, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Thorpe, Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am going to be doing the temperature compensation procedure for my KX3. The > sheet for the XG50 says I can use a 3' 50-ohm cable. This probably seems like > a silly question, but is it a big deal if I use a 6' cable? Is the signal so > weak I have to worry about that extra (???) loss? > > J > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
