So I went to come up with a quick run of coax to get a j-pole outside and looked through three 50 foot chunks I had. Two of them were RG58U and one was RG58A/U. I had nice ties on the RG58A/U and the RG58U had tape on it that had gone sticky and I was going to have to clean up. So because of that reason I chose the RG58A/U and I stuck the first end onto it. I figured tomorrow I'd run it and finish things off...
However... I just got to reading about it and while the RG58A/U has similar specs its billed as only being normally used for the old thin net networking stuff. (which reminds me of probably how long I've had this cable). man its been a while since I wired my parents house up with coax so that I could share my 33.6K modem over the thin-net to multiple computers. Anyway is there any reason not to use the RG58A/U or a compelling reason to use the RG58U over the RG58A/U? I know I really should use something other than RG58 if I'm going to be going any farther than the length of run that would be needed for a mobile. However at the moment the repeaters that I'm looking to be able to get into with this antenna I can hit with 5 watts (and the antenna in the same room with me). Its a just shy of 10 foot tall antenna in a room with 8 foot ceilings so its not exactly "vertically polarized" either... ;) ~Brett (KC7OTG) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
