[amsat-bb] Cables loss

[John Brier]

You should read yesterday's thread on egg beaters on the qrz.com forums.
One response said that today's birds don't have strong enough downlinks to
work the birds well using egg beaters.

They will probably work for high elevation passes but they aren't
recommended today in general. Seems like good info to me.

Preamps seem like an important component to use with egg beaters. Most
folks using yagis use them too so they would be even more important with
egg beaters.

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/egg-beater-antenna-question.620911/

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 07:17 Roger Titmuss <OLDBIKER at sky.com> wrote:

> Hi as a newcomer to this part of the hobby I have a couple of questions.
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> 1. When using the M2 egg beaters how important is it to install a masthead
> preamplifier?
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> 2. Again with egg beater will 30 watts be enough to get back to the bird?
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> I am using about 80 feet of RG213 to connect the antenna.
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> Many thanks
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> Roger G0AWY
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> 73
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