"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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Drivel: All of my 50 ohm antennas on my roof are connected to their
respective radios with 75 ohm RG-6/u coax, F connectors, and various
adapters. Also some RG-6/u with BNC compression connectors. No
problems and very little additional mismatch loss.


Often simple dipoles are closer to 70 ohms than 50. Not enough to make any
differance in most ham instalations.

I saw on youtube where you could take the rg-6 and after you strip it back ,
wrap about 6 turns of duck tape around it just where the outer jacket stops.
You only need a strip about 1/2 or 1/4 of an inch wide. Then you can fold
the braid back and use crimp connectors designed for rg-8 size. That helps
solve the aluminum jacket problem with the PL259s.