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Boxcar
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 8:30 am: | 
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Just curious if there's a difference in what coax to use between the scanner and a shortwave radio and what kind to use for the best low loss results. Only running about 50 feet tops as far as length goes. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 9:37 am: |
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boxcar
As a rule for general shortwave use MINI 8 coax. Now it will work well up to 440 MHZ but if you are going to be lissing at 800 you probly need to go to RG-8. Yes there are better coaxes but I dont think at 50 foot you will see a differance. |
ryan
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 2:56 pm: |
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for SW listening, a 20' piece of wire usually works well on the average reciever. i still have churchies splattering over the alex jones show with that |
Inspector
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 11:45 pm: |
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RG-6 works well for a scanner...use 60 or more feet of stranded wire directly to the SW, or you can use an "active antenna" if space is a problem. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 8:31 am: |
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Rg-6 ? hummmmm my choice would be a G5RV dypole fed with a antenna tunner but for this im thinking KISS. I think most shortwaves are 50 not 75 ohm inputs. |
2ec837
| | Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 10:40 am: |
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I agree with the Inspector, RG-6 is a good choice for scanner coax,it is low loss,low cost and is easy to work with |
Bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 1:01 pm: |
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boxcar get a full size G5RV ( 105 foot)using ladder line feed use a antenna tuner with a 400 ohm ladderline input and anything you want to hear on shortwave between 2-30 meg will be no problem...... if that dont hear it nothing will ..
As for scanners i run mini 8 75 foor to a discone at 30 foot up with a mast mounted 20 db gain preamp works fine. |
Crafter
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 2:10 am: |
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I use RG-6 on scanners due to signal loss, they dont transmit anyway. Sure brings in the 800 and 900 mhz weak signals. |
