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[TenTec] GPS Antenna feedline

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Subject: [TenTec] GPS Antenna feedline
From: mark@microenh.com (Mark Erbaugh)
Date: Wed Jun 25 20:50:27 2003
Well, I got things working!  I took a piece of RG8X because I had it some
and attached BNC connectors to both ends after running it through the house
band board into the shack.  I used an old PC network BNC T ( again because I
had one ) connector as a splice between the BNC on the antenna and the
extension.

The signal strengths ( I assume that that is the SS column on the SatStat
display - with the clock outside, directly connected to the antenna I saw
numbers peaking around 160, this evening the highest is about 70 ) are down,
but the clock was able to track 6 satellites in about 15 minutes.  Now to
let the clock stabilze.

This is probably in the manual, but do I need to adjust for the additional
length of coax that I added? Is there a way to let the clock figure that
out?

73,
Mark

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