I've got a stupid question. Why would somebody use silver-plated copper coated
steel coax with teflon dielectric at about a buck a foot RG-142 when any decent
active antenna will drive 50' of nickel a foot and no magnetic errors RG-174?

Jim



shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

- I had a compass problem that ended up coming from the coaxial cable
going to the
-GPS antenna. The RG-142B coax has a copper-clad steel center conductors and
running it
-up the center pillar in my Cherokee caused the compass to have an error.



Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com