Re: [amsat-bb] Need recommendations on 435 yagi feed

["Floyd Sense" <sentek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Close, but no cigar!  RG-62 is indeed quite common, but it's 93 ohms not 95
as is RG-133.  I'm certainly open to anyone who can speak with authority to
tell me that the 2 ohm difference won't matter.  I'm not capable of making
that judgement myself.  By the way, the RG-62 pre-dates LANs by a decade or
so.  It was used in 3270 display systems as the signal carrying cable
connecting the keyboard/display terminals to the control unit.  If done
properly, you could run the cable up to 5000 feet, but I think the
recommended limit was 2000 feet or so.  The frequency used was rather low -
less than 5 MHz as I remember.

K8AC
Floyd Sense - Angier, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou" <doug@dougbraun.com>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 17:33 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Need recommendations on 435 yagi feed


> In the USA at lest, all the ham cable/connector vendors seem to
> carry it.  And it is pretty cheap.  It was originally meant for
> some sort of IBM LAN technology (token-ring?), so lots of it was sold.
>
> Doug
> NA1DB
>
> At 03:59 PM 9/13/01 , John Wright wrote:
>
> >The 95 ohm coax is very hard to get. BUT if you take the appropriate
length of 50 Helix cable ( like Pope H100 ), pull out the center conductor
and replace it with a thinner center conductor, Not sure how thin, but that
can be calculated, you can make yourself a piece of what should really be
100 ohm cable. N 'T' pieces are about £10 stirling in the UK ( about $15 ),
so you should be able to get them for less than the price you quoted. I used
this system many moons ago in AO13 days. so it works. Incidentally the 1"
offset of the feed point makes very little difference to the phasing.
>
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