"flashback" wrote in message
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Does anyone have experience with how much power can be run through rg-58
versus rg-8. I am purchasing an Ameritron al-80B and will be running about
1K out. Can I still get away with RG-58? I will be using 160 thru 40
meters. I have a 200 foot run of RG-8 running to my antenna site, but I
hate to feed the dipole with something so heavy as RG-8.

thanks in advance for any help

W0EZI


At 10 MHz, the power rating for RG-58 (Polyethylene Dielectric) is 730w and
for RG-8 it is 3700w). For foam dielectric, use something like 50% of the
above. Note that RG-8x is rated at 1000w at this frequency.

Data from http://www.nemal.com/Catalog/30.pdf

Paul AB0SI