On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 11:45:10 AM UTC-5, George Haeh wrote:
LMR-300 would do the job for a price:
COAXIAL CABLE - ATTENUATION POWER
HANDLING CALCULATOR
Coaxial Cable Data
Product:
Frequency (MHz): 968
Run Length (Feet): 26
« Reset Calculate »
PRODUCT PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS
Attenuation: 6.3 db/100ft 20.6 db/100mtr
Average Power: 0.35 KW
Cable Vg: 85 %
Nominal Td: 1.2 nSec/ft 3.92 nSec/mtr
Capacitance: 23.9 pF/ft 78.4 pF/mtr
Typical Connector Loss: 0.06 dB/pair
CABLE ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE
Cable Run Attenuation: 1.6 dB
Total Cable Assembly Loss: 1.9 dB
Cable Run Efficiency: 68.6 %
Cable Run Time Delay: 31.08 nSec
As far as RG 58 is concerned, forget it for
that length.
At 13:13 05 March 2016, Andrzej Kobus
wrote:
On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 8:30:10 PM
UTC-5, George Haeh wrote:
I've been looking into ways to secure
coax=20
inside the tailboom. My current avenue
of=20
investigation is using magnetic
receptive=20
rubber sheet.=20
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Wrap a strip of sheet around the coax
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appropriate (suggestions welcome)=20
adhesive and use magnet on exterior
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tailboom to clamp at appropriate
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well clear of elevator pushrod.=20
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Times Microwave has a coax cable
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attenuation calculator:
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http://www.timesmicrowave.com/calculat
or/?
productId=3D38&frequency=3D1090&runL
ength
=3D26&mode=3Dcalculate#form
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Extra coax length is necessitated by tilt
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instrument panel.=20
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I'd also like to to put a
PowerFLARM=20
dipole in the fin, but that would have to
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at least a foot from the xpdr
antenna.=20
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The battery box is not big enough for
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so may need an opening in the box
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achieve enough separation. Once in
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for antenna(s), likely the box would
no=20
longer be available for ballast.=20
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If the front of the nose cone, would
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for an L2 antenna, the problem would
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much simplified.=20
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Any interference with the comm
coax=20
and/or antenna would mess things up.
George, I am afraid the coax cable losses
for Flarm antenna would be too
hi=
gh if you run it from the tail of your glider
to the instrument panel.
Flar=
m is a very low power unit and the cable
length is very important. Also if
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the horizontal stab is carbon that would
not work very well either.
George, transponder installations usually call for total loss not higher than 2 dB with a practical allowance for a connector of 0.25 dB on each end, leaving 1.5 dB for coax.
Your connector allowance is really low.
For example Schleicher uses Aircell 7 and total coax length and connectors are just about at max allowance for a Class 1 transponder.
I doubt that such loss will be tolerated by PF. I actually discussed this with Schleicher and I was told it will not work in practice.