BillH1
Member
Hello, everybody, I have a silly question. I have a mag mount antenna on my roof because that's all the landlord will allow. It only has 17ft of rg58 coax, and I want to move it to a higher point. I was wondering if I would be seeing any extreme losses if I were to put an adapter in the line and attach about 50 ft of rg6 coax which has fewer losses in the frequencies I want to listen to than the rg58. Would I minimize losses by using the rg6 for the remainder of the length, or would I be better off getting more rg58? I read that using adapters is not really a problem because losses from using them are minuscule usually less than 1db, so I am more worried about the coax. I know this isn't ideal, buts its basically my only option since I can't mount anything onto the building.