Flexible Coax
Does anyone know of a brand of RG-6 Coax that is highly flexible? The one I've got now gets very stiff below about 50 deg F. It gets very upset with me if I try to uncoil it. I tried uncoiling it a...
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Tom_M wrote:Satellite L-Band runs from 950 - 1450MHz, so if you take the 750MHz loss specs and double it, that will give you worst case L-Band losses providing the coax is linear. And if it's not, trash it anyway.
One popular brand of coax is CommScope. Here are specs from their web site:
750 mhz
RG-59 6.97db/100ft
RG-6 5.65db/100ft
1000 mhz
RG-59 8.12db/100ft
RG-6 6.55db/100ft
The high end of broadcast TV is channel 51 which is 700 mhz. I don't know what satellite uses between dish and receiver.
The fact that much of the coax uses copper clad steel is not much of a factor.
