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Air Traffic Monitoring => Feed Outage/Status Reports => Topic started by: Jeff Turner on July 30, 2006, 08:46:31 PM
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Gents,
I'm just running a radio shack mobile antenna in my attic, I can hear ZKC CTR pretty good depending on the wx. The cable running to the antenna is RG-58, I know that I've heard RG-8 is better, any truth to that?
JT
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The cable running to the antenna is RG-58, I know that I've heard RG-8 is better, any truth to that?
Yes, there is truth to that. RG-8 is a great coaxial cable and in most cases offers less signal loss than RG-58 does. Belden 9913 tops RG-8, but the stuff does get expensive.
Hope this helps,
Jason
P.S. If you do a quick search on either of the coax cables here in this forum, you'll find a wealth of information and/or links to outside references. :-D
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Also depends how long the cable is... how long is it? :-D :-D
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id go with rg 58 and as long as you are under 100 feet length shouldt matter really