Re: RG-8X

Posted by Jim Brown-10 on Feb 26, 2018; 9:04pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/RG-8X-tp7638635p7638639.html

On 2/26/2018 11:02 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
> I did inquire as to the application.  To feed a 6M yagi being a 6OWL6W.  My thinking, I would cringe at putting up a nice yagi such as this and not use the feedline with the lowest loss possible.  Most likely Andrew LDF4-50A hardline.

Me too!  The 350 ft run from my shack to the 3-el SteppIR is 7/8-in
hardline, transitioning to a short length of flexible coax for the
rotator loop. Scrounged the hard line used for roughly $1/ft.  Loss is
about 1 dB on 6M.

73, Jim K9YC


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