LONG cable for DISH?

And why can't I get my IPad to post the question? I had to resort to using the laptop.

What cable are you thinking of extending? The cable from the dish? No, won't go that far without some special electronics.

You won't need additional service, just take your receiver & TV out there and add another dish at that location.

Are you thinking of providing reception capability to your RV parked out there with a receiver already in it? That's what I did - just add a dish to the building and plug into the cable when you park.

People have run RG-6 300 feet, YMMV. With RG-6, there would be ~30 dB of loss @2250 MHz @300 ft. To even have a chance at 300 yards, you'd need much better cable, such as LMR-600-75 (~36 dB and ~$2/ft), or even hardline (even more $$$).

Did you receive my PM, @chast? I wasn't able to post because of the timeout error on the forum.

when I had a fairly long run, I put one of those small in-line boosters in the line and it did add some "power". at that time it was about $18 at wally world. not that long however.
bumpy

I would do like Hiking Hunter says - Put up a second dish where your trailer is parked... Be sure to match up your SAT TV carrier...

No need to mess with a super long RG cable and its losses...

Roy Ken

you can purchase a sat dish for 75 dollars. the SWM is 100.. done.

you will spend way more than that on hardline.

chast wrote:
Hi all--want to connect from the house to an outbuilding about 300 yards away. Can this be done with cable that long or do I need an additional service?

Do you just want to sent the output from a receiver to the out building or do you want to run a coax from an existing antenna to a receiver at that remote location?

At my cottage The dish is 250' away from the receiver.
I get a clear signal averaging 90 out of 100.