{"id":475,"date":"2017-07-11T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/?p=475"},"modified":"2017-07-13T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T05:21:00","slug":"coax-loss-calculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Coax loss Calculators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hardline \/ Coax loss calculator<\/h4>\n

I got a few questions at Field Day 2017 why I always run the heavy thick RG-213 cable for HF when we are portable.\u00a0 I told them it was all about the loss and the shielding.
\nBelow is good information to have handy when looking at purchasing new coax or hardline.\u00a0 Remember: When it comes to coax, you definitely get what you pay for.<\/p>\n

As a rule of thumb, try to keep coax losses under 1db in your antenna setup.<\/p>\n

3db loss is HALF you power!<\/p>\n

(Yes, some of these are similar.. pick the one you like and go with it. Or bookmark this site and have a choice of any of them.)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/kv5r.com\/ham-radio\/coax-loss-calculator\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.w4rp.com\/ref\/coax.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/co8tw\/Coax_Calculator.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/arrg.us\/pages\/Loss-Calc.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hardline \/ Coax loss calculator I got a few questions at Field Day 2017 why I always run the heavy thick RG-213 cable for HF when we are portable.\u00a0 I told them it was all about the loss and the shielding. Below is good information to have handy when looking at purchasing new coax or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[127,128,129],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contesting","category-technology","tag-coax","tag-coax-loss","tag-hardline"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n1rwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}