Larry W4CSC wrote:

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Good post Larry. For my two cents - I switched several years back from
Belden to Times Microwave cable for everything. Lower losses and
personal experiences has been much better weather resistance.

Mike KG4RRH


More CB myths. Most boats only have a 25-50' coax run. What I DO
recommend is a good Belden foil shielded cable, which will require
proper crimp connectors to make it work, not PL-259's from WalMart.
The 100% foil shield will keep locally generated noise OUT of the
cable on receive on its way from the antenna to your sensitive
receiver. You won't have to listen to the cheap straight plugs marine
engine manufacturers love to put in outboard and inboard motors,
instead of the resistor plugs they should be using. The foil coax
will also get a little more signal to the antenna on transmit, but
"big deal"....(c;

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:33:27 -0500, Vito wrote:

Marcus AAkesson wrote:

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:41:08 -0500, "Jim Woodward" jameslwoodward at
attbi dot com wrote:

4) What do you like other than the cheap white crap for antenna cable? I
used Belden 9913 (solid center conductor) on Swee****er. Is that still a
good choice?

RG214 or similar which is silver plated Cu in both conductor and
shield. Raw copper will in time oxidize and deteriorate in the salty
environment. I have seen some really ugly cables after only 5-6 years.


Check out http://www.therfc.com/attenrat.htm

Common RG-58A (the white crap) looses 7.4dB/100 ft at 200MHz. That's
over half your signal used to heat the coax! RG-8X (mini-RG8 - the other
white crap) is almost as bad at 5.4 dB/100'. Belden 9913 is excellent at
only 1.8dB/100. RG-214 has 3.3dB loss/100' but as Marcus suggests may
have better corrosion resistance. Of course if money, size and weight
are unimportant there's LDF5 (c:

Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"