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Yeah I agree, but I am not running a J-pole on SSB, I am running the stacked halos... not a bad setup really, as for feedline I somewhat agree with you, but honestly at 50 feet the difference between good Mini 8 and LMR400 is less than 0.5db, there are going to be very few situations where that little bit will make a station copyable vs not heard, not saying it would ever happen, just saying those situations are few and far between... that being said I am planning to run 1/2 CATV hard line, I have about 100 feet sitting in my shack with connectors (plan to run mini 8 as jumpers on this. Pretty sure the hardline is going to walk all over the LMR400... Also at that time I intend to go up to between 75 and 100 feet (near the top of my big old oak tree)

[QUOTE="mr_fx, post: 419910, member: 22137"] Yeah I agree, but I am not running a J-pole on SSB, I am running the stacked halos... not a bad setup really, as for feedline I somewhat agree with you, but honestly at 50 feet the difference between good Mini 8 and LMR400 is less than 0.5db, there are going to be very few situations where that little bit will make a station copyable vs not heard, not saying it would ever happen, just saying those situations are few and far between... that being said I am planning to run 1/2 CATV hard line, I have about 100 feet sitting in my shack with connectors (plan to run mini 8 as jumpers on this. Pretty sure the hardline is going to walk all over the LMR400... Also at that time I intend to go up to between 75 and 100 feet (near the top of my big old oak tree) [/QUOTE]

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