Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is the right spot for my question, forgive me if it isn't. I live on a farm with 30-60ft trees. As the trees have grown I'm finding myself needing a freestanding tower for my television and Internet. As much of a pain as that sounds I'd like to set up an fm tower for my farm fm radio and for scanning local trunked systems along with fm signals.
Info... The tower is 65 ft tall with the antenna on top for the fm radio. I'd like to mount my satellite dish 25 ft up on the tower with the internet dish just below it a few feet. The house would be 250 feet away from the tower. I am fairly new to the scanning world, currently I have a rs pro 651 and would like to get a trx2 for indoor use. I need 3 coax for the dish, one for the Internet and one for the fm radio/scanner. These 5 cables would all be trenches underground together in a 1 inch poly pipe running from the house to the antenna. I'd like a coax switch in the basement of the house for a quick switch between the trx-2 and farm fm.
I'm guessing that rg6 low loss will be fine for the tv satellite and that rg8 low loss for the scanner/fm radio. My QUESTION is, will I have problems with signal loss over this distance for my satellite tv and fm radio? Also will running all these cables together in the poly pipe cause any interference? And finally is there any suggestions on cable size, quality and type that would work better for any of my applications. If a shorter distance was possible I'd do it...this is the best I have to work with. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Info... The tower is 65 ft tall with the antenna on top for the fm radio. I'd like to mount my satellite dish 25 ft up on the tower with the internet dish just below it a few feet. The house would be 250 feet away from the tower. I am fairly new to the scanning world, currently I have a rs pro 651 and would like to get a trx2 for indoor use. I need 3 coax for the dish, one for the Internet and one for the fm radio/scanner. These 5 cables would all be trenches underground together in a 1 inch poly pipe running from the house to the antenna. I'd like a coax switch in the basement of the house for a quick switch between the trx-2 and farm fm.
I'm guessing that rg6 low loss will be fine for the tv satellite and that rg8 low loss for the scanner/fm radio. My QUESTION is, will I have problems with signal loss over this distance for my satellite tv and fm radio? Also will running all these cables together in the poly pipe cause any interference? And finally is there any suggestions on cable size, quality and type that would work better for any of my applications. If a shorter distance was possible I'd do it...this is the best I have to work with. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.