you wont notice the loss... My club just Put up a New antenna and New 7/8 hardline. the hardline was about 200 feet. the Tower Guy dropped a knife. 1 in a million shot and cut the hardline at the base of the Tower. I spliced the cable using 2- 7/8" EIA flanged Connectors because that what I had available in my truck at the time. taped it up. No Noticable loss at all. Tested with a network analyzer showed a Very small almost un-noticable bump in the cable where the splice was. If I worried about insertion loss at Every Connector I would give up owning 6 repeaters.
Of course you have you use high quality connectors. The worst Connectors are 90 degree connectors. they use a Cheap spring inside. that heats up and opens like a Fuse over time. Neal-ka2caf --- On Tue, 4/22/08, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Bad adapter > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 3:00 PM > Looking at the pictures gives me a couple of ideas. > first is that the person who cut the heliax must be > really dense to think > he could get away with it. All one needs to do is trace > that other coax to > wherever. Plus it might be possible to lift fingerprints > from the heliax. > Second, looks like the Heliax could be spliced back > together with proper > connector(s), but would be a job and a bit of a bump in > loss? > I actually have a question here about loss. What would be > the loss in one > male and one female 7/8" N connector for Heliax? My > thought is with the > idea of possibly moving my antenna in the future, if I can > eventually > manage a taller tower. > I see all kinds of loss calculators for cables > themselves, but no > mentions of same for assorted connectors. > YMMV > > Wayne WA2YNE > > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:56:37 -0500, ka9qjg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That Picture give the Term Low Loss Coax a New > meaning, what an idiot > > who ever it was , Thanks for posting I would of not > believed it had I > > not seen the Pic > > Happy Repeater Building > > Don KA9QJG > > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: > http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
