My coax debate

[vo1ks]

And I'd given you up as a Chicken Band refugee...

I have to assume that it's a HAM thing and with no real foundation.

After 20 years working in high power broadcasting, and 27 years amateur radio I think there's a reasonable foundation to my knowledge.

At work, 1kW is QRP.

 

[BOOTY MONSTER]

Chicken Band refugee...

 

[Mudfoot]

Out come the resumes....

 

[GnG8d]

Chicken Band refugee...

lmao, I like that


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[Captain Kilowatt]

Out come the resumes....

I can't vouch for anyone else here but I can vouch for VO1KS. I have been to his place of work on the odd occasion. Locally we call the site "RF Alley".

Here is a good review of UHF versus N connectors. Note the return loss figures at 2m and 70cm especially.

The UHF type connectors under network analysis

 

[BOOTY MONSTER]

i'm part parrot and part experimenter .
i'm also part dumb azz and part smart azz .

so i'm probably not qualified to clean the floors at the RF Alley

 

[vo1ks]

Really? I don't recall seeing you there. Must have been during Mike's days.

I have been to his place of work on the odd occasion. Locally we call the site "RF Alley".

I'd like to spend at least two months at RCI in Sackville, NB to better figure the place out before it gets dismantled. With ongoing budget cuts it seems to be only a matter of time until it gets shut down. Even 70kW+ FM tends to get dwarfed next to a pair of 350kW shortwave transmitters. No PL259s there...

 

[jopalsh]

More UHF Connector Tests

I can't vouch for anyone else here but I can vouch for VO1KS. I have been to his place of work on the odd occasion. Locally we call the site "RF Alley".

Here is a good review of UHF versus N connectors. Note the return loss figures at 2m and 70cm especially.

The UHF type connectors under network analysis

Here are some test results of a variety of UHF connectors compared with N, BNC, SMA and TNC.

Search for "UHF Connector" - Ham Radio . me

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Really? I don't recall seeing you there. Must have been during Mike's days.

I have been to his place of work on the odd occasion. Locally we call the site "RF Alley".

I'd like to spend at least two months at RCI in Sackville, NB to better figure the place out before it gets dismantled. With ongoing budget cuts it seems to be only a matter of time until it gets shut down. Even 70kW+ FM tends to get dwarfed next to a pair of 350kW shortwave transmitters. No PL259s there...

Somehow I missed this post. Yeah Warren it was several years ago. I can't remember Mike's last name but I believe it was him. There was another guy there as well that I remember, long hair and had a boat. I was there the day after Hurricane Juan checking on the CHFX tx and was talking to him. He told me rode out the storm in his boat in the harbour. Come to think of it, didn't he used to work for MBS? Used to live at the CHNS tx site for a while. Maybe I am confused and "Mike" and "the other guy" are one and the same. Anyway been there a couple times. Even borrowed a spec analyzer from you guys once a loooong time ago.

 

[vo1ks]

Wayne worked with MBS for 27 years and lived at the AM site most of that time. Long hair Greg owned the boat. Are you thinking Mike Maxwell from MBS? He was there only a couple of years.

 

[Beetle]

i'm part parrot and part experimenter .
i'm also part dumb azz and part smart azz .

so i'm probably not qualified to clean the floors at the RF Alley

Don't be silly! Of course you are!

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Greg, that's it. He is the one I got the spec analyzer from and talked too about the hurricane. Met Wayne a time or too as well and swapped MBS horror stories. As for Mike Maxwell, AFAIC he is a condescending little POS and I would never insult someone by getting them confused with Mike. Nuff said. :angry:

This is where I feel compelled to post my little sign.

 

[BOOTY MONSTER]

Don't be silly! Of course you are!

thanks for having confidence in me