Okay, at this point, I have the following: 100 feet of LD5-50A 1 Female 'N' connector for same 3 male 'N' connectors for same, plus an additional male 'N' from another source. All for the LDF5050A cable At antenna, a 3 or 4 foot 1/2" Heliax jumper, as the connectors for the 7/8" Heliax are a tad too large to fit the antenna base. Antenna on a 23' tower, and about 21 feet up to the end of the jumper, which will be used with some bow to allow for possible movement and being able to clamp the 7/8" to the tower so it won't pull on the jumper at all. I also have a bulkhead mount Polyphaser which I could, for the time being, install at the repeater itself and use a jumper there that is RG214, currently between two cans on a 2 meter duplexer. Two foot, long enough to exit the bottome of the repeater cabinet and connect to polyphaser. I figure about 30-35 feet of the Heliax to get to that point, and allow a bit of slack in the RG214. it would be simple to use one male and one female 'N' connectors to splice the Heliax if I move things later on. Some of these connectors might be harder to get later on, and at a maybe higher cost that I got them for. Low calorie budget from here on, spent too much on the rep[eater already. YMMV
Wayne WA2YNE On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:35 -0500, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wayne wrote: >> 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. > > CSI: Radio Towers -- Coming soon to CBS! > > (We already tried CSI: Cedar Rapids but it didn't do well with the > audiences -- they fell asleep.) > > Maybe Kevin or Scott could be called in as "expert witness" special > guest stars? > > And of course, all radio sites will have to be dark, so even mid-day the > investigators will have to look around with powerful flashlights to find > that "one clue they missed at the scene when they were there two days > ago". > > LOL! > >> 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? > > Amphenol actually does make a (relatively expensive) hardline splicing > kit. Works well, according to the club techs who had to use one once on > one of our runs of 7/8 that was damaged. > >> 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. > > If you can't do new feedline for the whole run, get a splicing kit and > not connectors. > > Better yet, consider it part of the "cost of moving" and don't move if > you can't replace the line. That'd be my "take" on it. > > Build to commercial standards, or don't build... you'll only be back > later fixing it... like anything else "hammy" I've ever seen/dealt with. > > But we all here understand the reality of budgets, or lack thereof... > (sigh)... > > Nate WY0X -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
