[TowerTalk] rg-59 manufacturer

[Jim Brown]

On Sun,2/15/2015 5:04 PM, charlie carroll wrote:
>   They're well known
> in the ham community with a pretty good reputation.

More than a few vendors "well known in the ham community" sell junk, or 
sell at wildly inflated prices, or both. Many "have a pretty good 
reputation" only because guys like you have never measured their stuff 
competently and talked about it.

Unbranded connectors and unbranded coax should be viewed as junk unless 
proven otherwise. If you want decent, inexpensive 75 ohm coax for RX and 
low power applications, poke around the internet for Belden and 
Commscope cables designed for CATV use. These are real cable companies 
with real QC. If loss below 10 MHz matters, avoid copper-clad steel 
center, and go for a relatively heavy braid shield.

Davis RF also sells decent quality private-labeled coax.

73, Jim K9YC