[Repeater-Builder] Jumper help!

2004-11-20 Thread tgundo2003
I am finishing up my uhf repeater buildup, and I made up some 1/4 superflex jumpers from the radio (Converted mitrek) to the duplexer to replace the crummy ones I am using now (One is a RG-8, the other an RG-8M,lots of adapters and everything, yuk!). The connectors on the radios are so-239,

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Jumper help!

2004-11-20 Thread Joe
Did you measure the 50 ohms with a multimeter? If you did, try putting power to the cables with a radio and measure the reflected power of the jumper by itself. Sometimes a DC 50 ohms does not equal an RF 50 ohms. The other possiblilty might be that the RG8 was the exact lengths to make it