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Offline Darrell

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Coax Cable
« on: May 20, 2006, 16:31:54 UTC »
I know there has been some discussion on what type of Coax Cable to use from the antenna to the base station. I am going to need about 100Ft to be safe from my outside antenna to the base station. I was at Radio Shack today and the tech  thinks I should use RG-6. It is 75 OHMS and he thinks I won't have much signal lost.
So what does everyone else think?



Offline Kalpazan

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Re: Coax Cable
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2006, 19:29:56 UTC »
50 Ohms cable is better in my opinion

Offline sean

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Re: Coax Cable
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2006, 23:09:19 UTC »
RG-6 is a good choice.  Given the large bandwidth of a scanner, the impedance match would rarely be 50 ohms.  RG-6 is a good, low-loss, quality shielded cable for a good price.  The difference between that and 50 ohm cable would be hard for someone to even measure.

« Last Edit: May 21, 2006, 03:17:31 UTC by sean »

Offline Lezam

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Re: Coax Cable
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2006, 01:39:21 UTC »
I have RG-6 for my 50 foot wiring, radioshack also reccomended them to me...

I am not sure if you can notice loss with 100 feet though, thats double my length...  My 50 foot works great for me, no noticeable loss heard

Offline PIT

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Re: Coax Cable
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2006, 01:53:24 UTC »
I also use RG-6 50 FT all the way to the coax splitter. after the splitter i couldnt tell you what it is.

Offline kiwisteve

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Re: Coax Cable
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2007, 23:40:03 UTC »
I am trying Andrews LDF 550 7/8 inch Heliax  loss seems pretty low
running 60metres of feeder from Diamond X7000 antenna