At 1/11/2006 11:09 AM, you wrote:
>You know the old saying... "if it works don't mess
>with it"..? If you really don't need the bp filter,
>don't bother. The extra loss and potential for problems
>from coax - connector joints, junctions and extra
>hardware just might shoot your repeater in the foot
>type thing. A generic rule of thumb might assume each
>coax connector is about .2 dB of loss added to the
>system. Add the connector loss to the filter loss
>and your system performance can go down.
0.2 dB seems a bit high for N connectors. Ns are spec'd up to at least 12
GHz, the better ones up to 18 GHz, so I don't see them having 0.2 dB of
loss at 0.45 GHz.
0.2 dB/connector may be accurate for "UHF" connectors.
Bob NO6B
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