I ve made dozens and dozens of cables to duplexers only making them a short but comfortable length and have never had a problem.
Duplexer cable length calculator.
75 c for pvc and 90 c for xlpe 90 c and 110 c for xlpe 110 c.
You do not put the thruline meter between the z matcher and the duplexer because the change in electrical length the presence then the absence of the wattmeter and its jumper cable will change the tuning.
A tee junction and two more cables connects the two branches with the antenna feed line.
To calculate the jumper cable lengths i plan to use 75 wavelength i realize that the coax velocity factor 66 x wavelength effects the jumper cable length.
A variable length phasing cable for use in determing duplexer cable lengths has been described as an cheaper alternative to a set of phasing cables with a 10mm length increment.
In this video i show the theory and practical methods at determining inter cavity duplexer lengths.
I can totally see a practical use like that getting urban legended into a duplexer in a suitcase needs equal length feedlines.
The 1 4 wave length cables between the tx and rx to antenna t are critical not for impedance matching but to present a high impedance between tx and rx to isolate one from the other.
A value of 111 is used for pvc cables 143 is used for xlpe 90 degree cables and 132 is used for xlpe 110 degree cables.
The cable uses m f sma connectors to vary the length.
Understanding maintaining re tuning antenna duplexers a band pass duplexer using six band pass type cavity resonators is shown in schematic form in figure 1.
The next post will cover the use of the variable length cables and include screen shots from instruments and photos.
The impedance in the pass range of the duplexer is hopefully in the 50 ohm range and cable length makes no difference to the impedance in the pass range.
Now remove the jumper cable and dummy load and connect the feedline and antenna.
Note that each branch has three cavities connected together with cables.
The calculator assumes that the initial conductor temperature is the maximum allowable operating temperature for the insulation type i e.
If you do accidentally connect the wrong tx to the wrong duplexer port you probably have enough cable slack to fix it without specifically needing to cut to precisely equal length.
I have acquired a like new sinclare 4 cavity uhf duplexer but without the interconnecting jumper cables.
For example let s calculate the length of a radio wave at 28 5 mhz.
