Topband: 1000 feet 5/8" hardline or 600ohm True Ladder line.

[Carl]

I buy my quad shield Commscope RG-6 directly from a CATV distributor in bulk 
so I know it is outdoor rated as well as having published specs.
The stuff from box stores, RatShak, Fleabay, hamfests, etc, can be a real 
crapshoot especially when the reel and cable is unmarked.

Extensive tests when I worked as an engineer and later manager in a 
broadband CATV based data/voice/video network showed that quad shielded RG-6 
and RG-11 made a substantial improvement over same company dual shield when 
it came to signal ingress in harsh enviroments.

Cheap cable from even known brands, had a thinner foil and as little as 65% 
braid.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Waters" <mikewate at gmail.com>
To: <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>; "topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Cc: "Owen Duffy" <owen at owenduffy.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: 1000 feet 5/8" hardline or 600ohm True Ladder line.


>I wonder just how much different the loss is?
>
> 73, Mike
> www.w0btu.com
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>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Jim Brown 
> <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>wrote:
>
>> ... most RG59 and RG6 cables are made for CATV and MATV, and those cables
>> have Al foil and thin braids, so the loss in the shield is MUCH greater,
>> especially in the low MHz range.
>>
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