Looking to beef up the cable attached to the Larsen trunk NMO mount for my car. As far as I can tell, Larsen doesn't have anything with thicker/shorter cable, so I figure my best bet is to short the cable length from 17' to 12', which should still be enough to reach the front of the vehicle. I also figured it'd be good to beef the cable up a notch to the thicker RG6 or some of the LMR-240 stuff.
Thought of doing this myself (and I still might), but without the right cable crimper yet, I figured it'd be better to just have one custom made professionally. To start, I figured I'd clip the NMO mount cable about 6" after it leaves the mount housing, and attach a TNC male connector. Then I'd get either the RG6 or LMR-240, and put a TNC female on one end, with a BNC Male L joint on the other, and run that up to the front of my car where I keep my scanner (BCD396T) at.
Sound kosher for one looking to reduce signal loss and try to get a small range boost? Or do I need to look at getting a higher-gain antenna that targets the 800MHz trunked system ranges better (which is what I primarily listen to)? Currently using a Larsen tri-band 150/450/800, and it works really good.
One supplier I found (WPS Antenna, I think) seemed good at first. Their price for a custom 12' 50ohm cable with the above two connectors was about ~$20, plus the extra TNC-M for the cable end on the NMO mount. But they wanted a whopping $26 for shipping, which is absurd for 12' of custom cable and a small connector. So I figured I need to find someone else, but not sure which suppliers out there do good quality work and have reasonable prices, both for the product and for shipping it.
Thoughts?
Thought of doing this myself (and I still might), but without the right cable crimper yet, I figured it'd be better to just have one custom made professionally. To start, I figured I'd clip the NMO mount cable about 6" after it leaves the mount housing, and attach a TNC male connector. Then I'd get either the RG6 or LMR-240, and put a TNC female on one end, with a BNC Male L joint on the other, and run that up to the front of my car where I keep my scanner (BCD396T) at.
Sound kosher for one looking to reduce signal loss and try to get a small range boost? Or do I need to look at getting a higher-gain antenna that targets the 800MHz trunked system ranges better (which is what I primarily listen to)? Currently using a Larsen tri-band 150/450/800, and it works really good.
One supplier I found (WPS Antenna, I think) seemed good at first. Their price for a custom 12' 50ohm cable with the above two connectors was about ~$20, plus the extra TNC-M for the cable end on the NMO mount. But they wanted a whopping $26 for shipping, which is absurd for 12' of custom cable and a small connector. So I figured I need to find someone else, but not sure which suppliers out there do good quality work and have reasonable prices, both for the product and for shipping it.
Thoughts?