measuring your feedline

last updated 25 March 2025.

Sometimes we need to actually measure the characteristics of our feedlines. This might be because we want to see if an old piece is still good, or we have been given an unidentified piece of cable, or we want to use a piece of speaker cable or power cord for a feedline that was never intended or specified for RF use.

measuring velocity factor

measuring characteristic impedance

measuring feedline loss

factors that affect feedline loss

adventures with small feedlines : comparative measurements on small cables

back to:

antenna measurements

feeding the antenna

related pages:

feedline data tables

external links:

TLDetails transmission line calculator program from AC6LA