Michael Edelman wrote: > > Bob Denton wrote: > > > I still can't believe 100 feet of coax weighs 5 lbs? > > > > Seems about right. But 100 feet of transmission line at 174MHz is gonna be > *very* lossy- like as much as 20dB for small coax- unless you use 9913, which > weighs about 20 lbs per 100'. Or thereabouts. > > I've been thinking about the best lightweight way to do this, like the > possibility of using twin lead, and I've decided the best solution is to lift > the antenna, HT and paddler in the balloon. > You're probably right on target!! :>) If every kayaker was a ham, I'd say, put up a dual band VHF/UHF HT on the kite, and have it set to "cross band" operation! But I won't.....sigh! James *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Mar 06 1998 - 17:16:19 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:29:54 PDT