[dave]

On 03/10/2013 06:30 AM, Don Pearce wrote:
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:15:56 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"

Heliax for 10 KW? Ever had the filter fail on the compressor and get
water in Heliax? I had a stupid SOB for a boss 30 years ago who was too
sheap to replace filtes on schedule and ruined a piece of 3" Heliax used
at 4 GHz. Waveguide is better at high power, and better than Heliax. I
had over 1700 feet of it at one TV transmitter. It carried about 195 KW
of RF to the top of the tower. We had to maintain a set pressure of dry
nitrogen on the waveguide to keep from compressing the sync pulses.

No, not at 10kW. At 100W or so it is fine. On a long run I would
always opt for waveguide - tower dimensions permitting.

d

You can't use waveguide for digital TV transmission-something about the
joints making unsuitable anomalies. Air dielectric co-ax is what's used.