At 4/11/2008 20:19, you wrote: >In a message dated 4/11/2008 8:13:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I've actually had plain copper-braided RG-214 coax on the antenna port of >a UHF duplexer cause desense; had to replace it with silver-plated RG-214 >.... > > >Can you clarify this? I thought that any RG-214 cable has a spec for >silver plated shielding.
Not the "modified" RG-214 or cable marked "RG-214 type". Search the list archives for more on this issue. I no longer put such cables anywhere in the antenna system. I've used them in the past & usually have "gotten away" with it, but after discovering that one copper-shielded cable that caused intermittent desense for several years, I'm not counting on luck anymore. Bob NO6B
