As far as the coil is concerned you shouldn't need one on a 1/4 wave antenna such as the one you are running. If it is the proper length the capacitance and inductance should cancel each other. Adding an inductor of any kind will throw off this balance, as well as shorten the length that the antenna needs to be to be resonant. I am curious what an antenna analyzer would say about the resonant point of the antenna before and after this coil was added.
I only wish I had an analzyer.
Also note, an SWR match does not mean an antenna is resonant. While most antennas are designed to keep these two points close, it is possible for an antenna to be resonant at a wildly different impedance than 50 ohms. Tuning to resonance will net better performance than tuning to an SWR match.
That is what I was getting at. I had read that and it seemed like it made enough sense to be believable.
I believe you, you should recommend it quit smoking... horrid habbit...
I do keep telling it to stop, but it just won't listen.
I see by previous posts on this and other forums that you did do research, at least on some things. That is more than many people do before running an amp. Amps can be expensive, and there is a lot of misinformation pertaining to them. They are also among the first places people go to increase their range when it should be their last. You at least did other stuff first.
I research research research. I tend to be a bit excessive compulsive. When I bought my wife her engagement ring. I researched diamonds, their grading, properties, color and clarity, angles and how they perain to brilliance. I also studied metalurgy of jewelry class metals, how its forged, properties of each metal, how they are alloyed and what they are alloyed with. By the time I bought it, I found that I knew more than 95% of the people working in jewelry stores. I ended up hand picking the diamonds individually, and had a ring custom built for $2000, then had a retail appraisal done on it and it appraised for 3 times what I had into it.
Unfortunately for me, there is much more to tranceiver radio systems than jewelry. I know enough to make myself dangerous. I will say that I think I have more information in the form of answers, than I have understanding of those answers. Which always leads to more questions and research. For me just having the answer isn't enough. In my opinion, knowledge isn't measured by the answers alone, but knowing the answer AND to understand how the answer was concluded. I mean, you can teach an ape to hold up two fingers every time someone says "what's 1+1", but that doesn't mean it can add.
The rating for the Wilson 5000 is based on the coil within it, not the coax used. Look it up, you will see that it is not rated for near that much power. It should be able to handle that amp though. I wouldn't trust the RG-58 myself either, unless I happened to know it was mil-spec. Even then I just don't like RG-58. LMR-400 would be overkill for the power rating of your amp I think. That being said, go for it.
That is just what I have at the moment. I figured it might not be the best available, it should at least be safe.
