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Old February 16th 04, 09:08 PM
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Two words:

Installation manual.


That's the last time I'll follow one of those. Oh wait... DOH!

-Cory

Jim Weir
wrote:
: 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

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