dragon_slayer79
Member
Hello everyone,
First of all I know this is probably a really stupid idea but I'm just trying to consider all my potential options. I have a very long cable run from my Scantenna ST-2 to my 3 scanners that I run, total run of about 240'. I'm using tri-shielded RG6 direct burial from the tower to the house. The tower is 60' and the run to the house is about 150' the rest is being ran in the crawl space under the house to my office. I have a preamp out on the mast about 1 foot below the antenna and the power supply is in the crawl space just under the house. Power is supplied via the coax to the preamp.
My question is... Since I've got such a long cable run I'm losing a good portion of my signal strength by the time it gets to the radios. Would it be doable to run double amps? Don't laugh too hard now. What I was thinking was if I could power the preamp on the tower and put the power supply at the bottom of the tower (60') to shove a amped up signal across the yard to the house. Then place a normal amp (no separate preamp box and smaller dB gain like 10dB) in the house to re-boost the weakened signal again? I know of some of the problems that I could run into is that I'm going to amp any interference and noise twice and that it'd be better to replace the cable with a better more suitable cable, but I'm on a tight budget and though if a $10 second amp would help out some of the down falls might be an acceptable trade off for the time being. I was just wondering about the two amps fighting one another and burning themselves out, or possible effecting my radios.
Equipment that I'm using is a Uniden BCT15X, Uniden BC60XT-1, and a Radio Shack Pro-82
Only serious replies please and thanks for your time and help.
First of all I know this is probably a really stupid idea but I'm just trying to consider all my potential options. I have a very long cable run from my Scantenna ST-2 to my 3 scanners that I run, total run of about 240'. I'm using tri-shielded RG6 direct burial from the tower to the house. The tower is 60' and the run to the house is about 150' the rest is being ran in the crawl space under the house to my office. I have a preamp out on the mast about 1 foot below the antenna and the power supply is in the crawl space just under the house. Power is supplied via the coax to the preamp.
My question is... Since I've got such a long cable run I'm losing a good portion of my signal strength by the time it gets to the radios. Would it be doable to run double amps? Don't laugh too hard now. What I was thinking was if I could power the preamp on the tower and put the power supply at the bottom of the tower (60') to shove a amped up signal across the yard to the house. Then place a normal amp (no separate preamp box and smaller dB gain like 10dB) in the house to re-boost the weakened signal again? I know of some of the problems that I could run into is that I'm going to amp any interference and noise twice and that it'd be better to replace the cable with a better more suitable cable, but I'm on a tight budget and though if a $10 second amp would help out some of the down falls might be an acceptable trade off for the time being. I was just wondering about the two amps fighting one another and burning themselves out, or possible effecting my radios.
Equipment that I'm using is a Uniden BCT15X, Uniden BC60XT-1, and a Radio Shack Pro-82
Only serious replies please and thanks for your time and help.