I am about to re-roof my home, so I must temporarily remove my external antenna. Its a basic setup that works well... a simple quarter wave ground plane with (don't laugh-) a preassembled 50' length of Radio Shack RG-58 cable; About 10 feet of the 50 foot length is excess... I have never bothered to cut to length. Its all set up for plain vanilla VHF monitoring (154 MHz range)
So after the roofers leave and I reinstall the setup, I want to upgrade the cable to something with less loss, and move the mast to a little higher spot on the roof. So I'll probably need about 60 feet of cable total.
The antenna accepts a PL259 plug, and the radio a BNC, at the wall entry, I'd like to have PL259 female to female feedthrough mounted to a wall plate.
I do not want to get into big bulky cables, so is RG-6 the right choice?
Will I add significant loss by installing the wall feedthrough (versus having continuous cable from antenna to radio)?
Is now the time to add a preamp at the antenna? I'm in a fairly rural area so I don't think I have much of an intermod issue. But I don't know if those things are considered more trouble than they are worth....
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Finally, I'd appreciate any recommendations on where to buy online... I have a couple of weeks to get all this together.
Thanks,
dave
So after the roofers leave and I reinstall the setup, I want to upgrade the cable to something with less loss, and move the mast to a little higher spot on the roof. So I'll probably need about 60 feet of cable total.
The antenna accepts a PL259 plug, and the radio a BNC, at the wall entry, I'd like to have PL259 female to female feedthrough mounted to a wall plate.
I do not want to get into big bulky cables, so is RG-6 the right choice?
Will I add significant loss by installing the wall feedthrough (versus having continuous cable from antenna to radio)?
Is now the time to add a preamp at the antenna? I'm in a fairly rural area so I don't think I have much of an intermod issue. But I don't know if those things are considered more trouble than they are worth....
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Finally, I'd appreciate any recommendations on where to buy online... I have a couple of weeks to get all this together.
Thanks,
dave