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Dick Locke
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Cut GPS Antenna Wire??
On 05 Aug 2004 05:09:21 GMT,
(KB7PYF) wrote:
Greetings from the PacNorWest!
My question is: what problem(s) would I have if I cut the antenna wire to my
GPS/chart plotter (Standard Horizon CP-170) and splice with a BNC connector or
equivalent? Not sure what the impact would be (loss issues) at the freq used
by GPS.
I want to relocate the antenna and don't want to pull the antenna wire. If I
could cut, relocate and splice the wire the job is soooooo much easier.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks for your time//
Charlie KB7PYF
Before you do that, if you can open up your antenna easily, do that
and take a look and you'll probably find a BNC connector inside.
Possibly you can disconnect there, relocate, and reconnect with a much
simpler wire-pulling exercise. There will be losses in each connector,
so if you can avoid exta connectors you should.
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