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Title: Antenna cable
Post by: Jeff Turner on July 30, 2006, 08:46:31 PM

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

Title: Re: Antenna cable
Post by: Jason on July 30, 2006, 09:11:17 PM

Quote from: Jeff Turner on July 30, 2006, 08:46:31 PM

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

Title: Re: Antenna cable
Post by: Lezam on July 30, 2006, 09:50:19 PM

Also depends how long the cable is... how long is it?  :-D :-D

Title: Re: Antenna cable
Post by: cysj_vfr on August 08, 2006, 12:57:31 PM

id go with rg 58 and as long as you are under 100 feet length shouldt matter really