[hackpgh-ham] Re: Net times, revised...

  • From: Doug Philips <douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-ham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:45:13 -0400

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 23:39, Ed Paradis <legomaniac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was thinking stuff like this:
> http://www.bgmicro.com/CAB2143.aspx
> http://www.bgmicro.com/CAB2145.aspx
> http://www.bgmicro.com/ACS1557.aspx
>
> The first two are just cheap sources of high quality coax with nice
> SMA connectors already attached.
>

Yeah, but SMA connectors, as you've already said in the shop, are a pain to
be swapping back and forth. I'm confused.



> The second is a mag mount antenna that can be rebuilt to match the
> correct frequencies.
>

hmmm...



> Yagi antennas are so cheap to make that I just make one for every
> frequency range I want to use and with coax and connector permanently
> attached.  It probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but if
> you're starting out with nothing, it sure is nice to have the
> coax/connector problem solved.
>

Agreed on that. But I thought for 70cm/2m, BNC was a better connector?



> BGMicro was located about 2 miles from where I lived, so I could
> actually drive and pick things up.  They're a great place to get
> surplus stuff.
>

:-)

-D

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