Belden 7731A

[Audiodave1]

From the for what's it's worth department....

I acquired (no charge) 100' of this 75 ohm, solid core, hard to work with RG11 cable to see if it would acceptably replace some 5 year old Belden 9913F7 on a roof mounted Discone (Diamond 130) and a 6db 800Mhz omni.
50' run to each antenna.

Performance has been degrading for some time so today was the day.

Short answer, works great! Just as good as the LMR-400 on a couple other antennas for distant monitoring.
Pretty much the same specs +/- 0.1 or 0.2dB

The BNC's which fit the 9913 did not work on this cable so I have PL259-BNC adapters in the path until I can get some proper one.

The cable is intended for broadcast use or signal distribution.

Dave

 

[mpddigital]

It's a good coax. Will work very well for monitoring up to about 1800 MHz. If you want BNCs you can fit standard RG-11 BNCs. You can get them as clamp on or crimps.

 

[Thayne]

I have about 700 feet of it some guy gave me. Ideal makes some omniseal connectors that fit it but they are not stocked too many places but they are cheaper and high quality. I wonder about the sunlight resistance of the cable but it works great for receiving.