On 1/3/2012 11:48 AM, Doug Renwick wrote:
> 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.
Loss doesn't matter for RX antennas, but shielding does. DXE says that
the flooded Commscope RG6 they sell resists rodents. Commscope is a good
cable company. I laid two runs of a non-flooded Commscope RG6 (on the
order of 300-400 ft) on the ground almost five years ago to feed my
Beverages, and so far no obvious problems. And we DO have rodents --
rats, squirrels, and gophers that I know of. Because it has a steel
center and fairly light braid, I wouldn't use it for TX on the lower
bands, for reasons noted in the tutorial.
73, Jim K9YC
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