Cannot see any braid without undoing one of the N connectors on the RG214 jumper. Connectors are evidently not Amphenol, unless they didn't mark them as such. The cable says RG214/U. Connectors marked 74868 UG-1185/U Seems to be good quality. No leakage that I can tell, and zero resistance from one end to the other, so should be good to go.
Wayne WA2YNE On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:36:32 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 4/23/2008 00:45, you wrote: >> 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. > > Just make sure the RG-214 is silver-plated. I had a jumper I used this > weekend for a 2 meter repeater installation that said "Intercomp RG-214" > that caused desense when I flexed it, so I replaced it. When I got home > I > took a close look at one of the connectors & could make out a couple of > COPPER braid strands. That jumper got the colored tape band applied to > the > middle, my indicator that it's "no good for duplex". > > Bob NO6B > -- 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/
