You can build an attenuator circuit using resistors which is fairly simple and much cheaper. You would need a tiny piece of circuit board and a simple diagram showing what goes where. There is bound to be an example somewhere on the net.
I think someone on this list will know how to build one.
Ross.
----- Original Message -----From: MichaelTo: LPFM_Radio@...Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:27 PMSubject: [LPFM] The problem of having such an efficient dipole antennae...By my calculations, with a 3.7dBi stacked dipole, I need to only feed
it 217mW to get an EIRP of 500mW.... so with a 1 watt transmitter,
this means 40 metres of RG-58A cable to come in under the legal limit,
and at $1.80/metre... that's $72 worth of cable.
Is there an ever crappier, lossier cable type I could use? Or a
special way to attenuate the signal further?
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