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Old June 14th 04, 03:41 PM
Bob Miller
 
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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:53:49 -0500, (g g) wrote:

i wont to build a dipole ant for 10 meters can i use tv coax .or do i
need to use rg.58


Electrically, the tv coax should work nearly as well as rg58.

Only problem I see is the foil inner shield in tv coax might be
trickier to solder to a standard pl-259 plug that you will screw onto
your transceiver. The connectors they used to attach to a tv input
won't fit your transceiver.

Bob
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