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Re: [IRCA] Indoor vertical update
On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Craig Healy wrote:
Until now it had been a couple of rooms away fed by a 40' length of
RG-58 50
ohm coax. There was a significant noise issue and a number of
birdies that
swamped a number of frequencies. And, some electrical buzz would
run for 30
seconds on and a minute off. Gave me 2/3rds DX time.
I've taken to using quad-shielded RG-6 (cable TV drop cable). The
garden-variety RG-58 and RG-8 doesn't have enough braid coverage to
give good shielding. You can find quality RG-58 cable like Belden
8259, but it's expensive. Quad-shielded RG-6 cable has even better
shielding and is cheaply available from Home Depot. You really do
need to invest in a Snap-N-Seal tool and compression coax connectors.
The Home Depot connectors are useless.
I replaced the RG-58 with CAT5 ethernet cable of about the same 40'
length.
CAT5 is pretty good stuff, and handy where you have a balanced feed.
Best regards,
-Steve
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Steve Byan <stevebyan@xxxxxxx>
Littleton, MA 01460
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