Hey Johnno,
Studying your figures, it seems that RG58A has a loss of 13mW per metre? So would I be right in saying to get a 1 watt TX down to approx. 300mW or less I would need around 60 metres of RG58A?
Cheers, Mike
> Hello Grant,
>
> Will be a little loss in TX power... now to get my calculator out :)))
>
> If your TX is out putting 500mw @ 88.4 MHZ, SWR of 1:1 at 7 meters of
> coax
> will be
>
> RG58 = Output 409 mw
> RG58A = Output 401 mw
> RG58C = Output 384 mw
> RG213 = Output 450 mw
>
> If you have already increased TX to 1 watt for the 87.5 - 88.4 as RSM is
> talking about then the following applies..
>
> RG58 = Output 818 mw
> RG58A = Output 803 mw
> RG58C = Output 768 mw
> RG213 = Output 901 mw
>
> I hope that helps...
>
> Johnno
>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:46 PM
> Subject: [LPFM] Re:Reducing output signal
>
> > This is of interest to me, as I need to move my transmitter for a few
> > weeks while decorating the studio.
> > I have a 7 metre coax extension lead. Will this cause much loss to my
> > transmitter power?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Grant
> >
> >
> >
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