On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Joe wrote: > 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).
What kind of coax were they? I'm trying to use RG-142 for as much as I can; when I run out of 142, I'll order some RG-400. (Solid vs Stranded center conductor.) -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Analyst
