Hello Hamish,



16 Jan 97, Hamish Moffatt writes to John Piper:



 HM> shorter distance than expected), the signal may be over-volumed and hence

 HM> distorted.



 HM> I'm a good 4km+ from my exchange and cannot honestly relate any problems

 HM> to distance-related factors. I don't think it matters that much.



It's one of the most important factors. Performance degradation due to
losses on the *total* length of copper (or aluminium) in a link is very
often wrongly attributed to other things.



Regards,

Kevin.



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