Here we go again. One camp saying don't go cheap and another camp saying cheap is fine. I pay 5 cents a foot for flooded RG-6 from Shaw Cable. Copper coated steel center plus braid and foil. My receive 4 square run is about 700 feet. I can hear more than I can work. I don't need expensive RG-6 for rodents to chew on. The rodents enjoy the cheap cable. Cheap in price but just maybe not cheap in quality. YMMV.
Doug >-----Original Message----- > >On 1/3/2012 7:06 AM, Andrey Fedorishchev wrote: >> Cheap RG6, the one with CCS center conductor, sometimes shows quiet high >> losses (few db per 300ft.) at 1-5 mhz and at the same time quiet low at >> higher frequencies; >> >> Not only the losses but signal leakage is important and not every brand of >> RG213 or RG6 is suitable at some instalations; > >Yes on both counts. I've written a Q&A style tutorial about coax that >addresses these issues, and a lot more. >http://audiosystemsgroup.com/Coax-Stubs.pdf > >Another point -- some of us DO have long runs to our antennas, so losses >can be significant. I have two runs to TX antennas that are 350 ft and >two for 160M that are 280 ft. My neighbor, K6XX, has some runs that are >nearly 1,000 ft, for which he's using parallel runs of hard line. > >73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
