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Hi,
As far as photos go I plan on posting some this next week on the yahoo group for skywires. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SkyWires/ I just put the skywire up, and it is definitely a step up from my dipole I just took down. I'm measuring the difference based on the reception of the International Beacons I can pick up. http://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/beaconSchedule.html I can now pick up the one in Russia occasionally , which I could never on my dipole. The other thing is that I can pick up some of the beacons on the higher frequencies, that I never could before. As far as RG6, I bought some from Radio shack, trying to save a little money. It was intended for Video use, and not radio, but I figured it was worth a try. I had to snip off one of the F connectors to solder it to the Skywire. The shielding wasn't copper braid, but an aluminum foil type shielding that was impossible to solder. So I ended up using my old R59. So be careful what you buy. I'm very happy with the answers to my questions. Please keep them coming. Thanks. |
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