Topband: CONNECTORS AND CABLE

[Doug Renwick]

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