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by Gary, VE1RGB So, like, what did you do to make yourself so popular? Big task: manufacture and test coax cable assemblies (and conduct a laboratory experiment) 34 environmentally sealed coaxial cable assemblies (1,100 feet) were

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by Gary, VE1RGB

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So, like, what did you do to make yourself so popular?

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Big task: manufacture and test coax cable assemblies

(and conduct a laboratory experiment)

 34 environmentally sealed coaxial cable

assemblies (1,100 feet) were manufactured, and then…

 Joined together and lab-tested as a single

coax run by VE1ZAC

 Losses/100 feet were measured; found to be

lower (i.e., better) than mfr’s specifications

 Characteristic impedance well within quoted

tolerances

 Losses in barrel and PL-259 connectors

verified to be negligible. Ign Ignor

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Previous Dxpeditions:  Navassa KP1  Desecheo KP5  Mellish Reef VK9MM  St Paul's CY9  Sable CY0 (3) 1996, 2012, 2013  Turks & Caicos VP5  Jamaica 6Y5  Puerto Rico KP4  Claims (repeatedly): CY0P was the

best of them all!

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Omnidirectional wire antennas work!!

 Claiming

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The Challenge:

What could I do with that station on a DXpedition?

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On the edge of the continental shelf

______ 300 km SE of H’fx ______

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1,400 lbs maximum

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