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Just received a Kenwood R-1000 in the mail today. Although it is pretty beat up, it seems to perform admirably, as expected. I know this topic has come up before, re: antenna connection. My interest is primarily the MW connection. (The coaxial shortwave seems to work fine on SW.) I'll...

Here's what I want to accomplish to use a roof-mount antenna with my Pro-163 scanner: -First, I have a 50' RG8/U cable that I will run from the antenna down to my house. -Next what I want to do is use an adapter to convert RG8/U (with type N connectors) to RG6, then use the existing RG6 cabling...