[BC] RG-8

[Gregory Muir]

But it worked.  It worked after getting stuck in a farmer's field going to 
the site after a horrendous lightning storm followed by golfball-sized hail 
only to find the tower had a direct lightning strike that vaporized the 
original Heliax and antenna.  In the process the lightning also hit the 
power lines leading to the site blowing the meter off the box outside the 
building.  All electrical conduits inside the building had small holes blown 
in them at approximately two foot intervals with sections of wire completely 
missing in some lengths.  Transient suppressors were of no use here except 
to fill the insides of their boxes with black soot and puddles of copper.

Had to get the system back on the air on battery operation and the only 
resource I had was a 1000 foot roll of RG8.  My tower guy arrived and did a 
midnight climb (ex-Navy rigger) and the RG8 still managed to eke out enough 
power to reach the other end.

Heliax went back in after the shipment was received and life was good again.

Greg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <A9xw at cs.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] RG-8


> Depending on the versio of RG 8 (9913, etc) you'll have 3-6 db /100' at 
> 150
> Mhz, so, 2.5 watts or less to teh antenna. Almost a perfect dummy load. 
> You'd
> be lucky to even see any VSWR with 18-36 db return loss!
>
> Henry   </HTML>
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