Ralph Mowery wrote:

"Rob" wrote in message
...
One ham said when he did he could tell the differance. I just don't see
that going from about .4 db or less of loss to .15 db of loss on 80
meters
is going to be noticed.

But what when he was working on 70 centimeters instead of 80 meters?
Then it would be a large difference.

I should have made it clear that this is for 80 meters only, no higher band.
Also he did not say what kind of differance he noticed, just that he did.

If changing from RG213 to hardline made any real difference at 80M, then
the RG213 was bad and needed replacing.

Very few hams have anything in their shack that can detect differnces of
a fraction of a db.

The only advantage to hardline at HF that I can think of is that good
hardline will likely outlive you and hence not require replacing in your
lifetime.


--
Jim Pennino