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    TS-50 acting squirrely

    Broke down the Shack the other day to have new flooring put in. Gently removed everything and stacked it on hall closet shelves. Floors are in. Plugged it all back up and turned it on. Worked one end of the spEctrum to the other and not one voice on any band - no shortwave stations and no...
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    Magnum 257 HP - good for 10 M use?

    nothing wrong with starting where you can Well now. I feel a bit more amongst family. I was apprehensive about mentioning one of the uglier 10m exports I had in my start up shack as a newbie tech ticket ham .. by the way, not transistioning from CB or the CB pirates running modified 10m radios...
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    signal loss using RG8x with couplers?

    I sincerely thank you all for helping out. Sometimes you can over think something or get sloppy and regret it too. Unless I move my dipole closer to the wall that I'd have to drop the feed line through, I will be dealing with 100 ft to get there and to the tuner and that could be minus 10 or 15...
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    signal loss using RG8x with couplers?

    Setting up a 10m dipole w/balun in attic and am going to feed RG8x across 30 feet and down into the wall of my den. I already have 50 ft of coax but will need another 50 and am wondering if using a PL259 female to female coupler will give me any significant signal loss?