At 7/8/2008 11:37, you wrote: >If you can't hear them you can't repeat them, so a repeater that has a 1.5db >of feedline loss (100 feet of LMR400 at 2m) from the antenna to the receiver >is not going to hear as well as one that has >0.5db of loss (100 feet of 7/8 inch >heliax at 2m).
...except if your repeater is in SoCal, where the antenna noise temperature on 2 meters is about 10 dB above kTB, so throwing away a couple of dB between the antenna & RX isn't going to hurt you. Bob NO6B
