EE school was a very long time ago.Â* Yes, a coax is a transmission line
and, properly terminated, will not produce reflections.Â* If you're
cutting your own line to length, make sure you make a good connection
with the connector on the end.Â* I always preferred the screw together
BNC connectors.Â* The crimp on connectors take a bit of practice to get
right.

On 1/6/2018 8:32 PM, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Scott Williams wrote on 12/31/2017 5:22 PM:
On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 7:12:51 PM UTC-6, Scott Williams wrote:
On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 6:13:39 PM UTC-6, Steve Koerner wrote:
On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 3:13:42 PM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
If it's not too much trouble, try a coax cable length of 21 11/16
inches
which would be 2 wavelengths at 1090 MHz (assuming my arithmetic is
correct).Â* You may have reflected power in your coax which will
reduce
performance.

Dan: I'm not jumping into the real technical matters here but its
pretty obvious that you're neglecting the fact that waves travel
slower in coax.

Hey Dan,
I think you may be correct about Too short,
I googled this and there is a couple of opinions that seem to originate
with Garmin, I doubt very many transponders are installed with coax
runs
less than 15 inches, maybe this particular problem is rare?
I'm using rg400, and may try a longer coax run.
Thanks,
Scott.

In addition,
So does anyone willing to suggest a coax length if not 21 11/16 inches?
maybe tree foot? is there a non critical length range?
Scott.

The coax is a transmission line, and good quality, undamaged coax does
not produce reflections. If the antenna is not properly constructed,
it will produce reflections, and the coax will carry them back to the
transmitter (transponder in this case).

So, with a good antenna and good coax, variations in length will make
no difference. Go fly, as Darryl says.


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Dan, 5J