Re: Best brand coax and F connector for HD cable?

[Roger <GetValidAddress@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:49:59 -0500, "Robert L Bass"
<robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Belden RG-6 is what you want...
>
>*Any* RG6 Quad Shielded cable will do fine.  Belden, like Monster, has marketed their name very well.

With today's cables using a 100% foil shield, plus a braid there is
little to gained by more layers of braid. Just stick with a name
brand. I've forgotten the brand, but I purchase it by the 1000 foot
roll. It's flooded for direct burial.  I use both Greenlee and the
Snap n Seal connectors.  They cost a bit more, but are both
mechanically sound and water proof.  The old hex crimp are easy to
pull apart.  One of these can hold my weight on the cable and in work
clothes I go over 180#.  Although waterproof connectors are not needed
indoors they are so easy to use and work so well I use them for all of
my F connectors.

As to how well  the foil and braid works; I run the cable through
conduit with the cables for my ham station. They will be running as
much as 1500 watts 1.8 through 50 MHz, a couple hundred watts on 144
MHz and up to 50 watts on the 440 MHz band.  I have two cables that
run to remote preamps on UHF antennas at roughly 90 feet and two that
run to the satellite dish at roughly 15 feet.  There is no interaction
of leakage between systems.

In addition I run a CAT5e cable with a gigabit network between 5 and
10 feet from and parallel to those cables
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com