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I've got about a 70 foot +/- run of RG-8X that I use to feed my 40
meter dipole. Out of curiosity can someone tell me about how much a a signal loss I've got compared to having an antenna that's actually cut for 30 meters ? Hi Gary, According to my calculations the feedline loss is around 90%, so if you are running 100 watts, and the tuner is lossless, 90 watts are lost in RG-8X. The good news is 10% efficiency is only 1-2 S units down from 100% on the recieving end. The bad news is, no tuner is lossless. You will have loss using a 40m dipole on 30m. Does that satisfy your curiosity:-)? 73 Gary N4AST |
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