At 08:36 AM 2/13/2007, you wrote:
>If "Joe Ham" were serious about weak signal reception, he'd mount the >preamp at the antenna. Otherwise, 3 dB is already a lot of loss to >tolerate for weak signal work; what's another dB? <---Not just the loss but those 3 dB of feedline loss translate to an additional 3dB of noise figure of the system if the preamp is at the receiver end of the feedline. In my EME array, I have an AngleLinear preamp at the array (with sequential control of the coaxial relays there of course) and about 50 feet of LMR600 running to the shack. Talk about no noise figure! <g> Ken (ok, maybe "a very low noise figure") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ President and CTO - Arcom Communications Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories. http://www.arcomcontrollers.com/ Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and we offer complete repeater packages! AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 http://www.irlp.net
