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Apr 03, 2015Explorer
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...
Tom_M wrote:Duh... Even though I'm in the TV business I never think about video coax for RF even though it's swept flat to 3GHz. Camera coax isn't cheap but probably better than typical RF RG6. Belden, Gepco, Carol, and Clarke all have knockoffs of the Canare Superflex, but the Canare is the nicest IMO. There are F connectors that fit but probably not the standard ones. Might be easier to go BNC and use adapters
You could try using RG-59 coax. It's thinner than RG-6 and would be easier to manage. The down-side is there's more signal loss. A friend of mine is using 100 feet for his Dish satellite.
If you are dead set on RG-6, you could check a brand called Canare. They make some very flexible cable. I don't know if they make a direct replacement for RG-6. If they do, I don't know if standard F connectors would work.