What you sometimes don't want to do is make some cables too neat. I remember a repeater that had desense problems. The fix was to cut the tie wraps off the receiver and transmitter cables coming from the duplexer that were neatly dressed inside the cabinet. They were running parallel and close together for quite a few feet and it was causing coupling between the receiver and transmitter. Moving them to opposite sides of the cabinet fixed the problem. (Maybe higher quality coax might have been a better fix, but this easy fix did the trick).
Rather than coil excess cables, I try to dress them along the cabinet so as to use up length, being careful not to do a parallel run with a possible problem cable. Cables that are truly too long should be shortened up. 73, Joe, K1ike ab6li wrote: > Hello to the group. > > I would like to gather some opinions on coiling excess coax as sometimes > found when interconnecting cables may be a bit too long for an application. > > Good idea? Bad idea? I know that the excess length would add some loss and > that would be undesireable but in some cases service loops need to be a bit > longer than one would like in a coax jumper so rolling it up seems to be a > natural way to cleanly dress the cables. > > Comments? > > John > >
