Cable for wireless antennas

[Darryl Smith]

I have a table on my www site
http://www.radio-active.net.au/web/80211/cable.html at the bottom of the
page with losses per 100 feet. Don't have RG6 there unfortunately.... 

Realistically any coax is good for short runs... I don't think you would
realistically have any problem with RG6... Any reflection problems would
be cancelled out by increased gains in antennas...

Darryl

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-----Original Message-----
From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Jason Hecker
Sent: Monday, 13 January 2003 5:09 PM
To: Jamie Lovick
Cc: ScapeSmerk at netscape.net; wireless at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Cable for wireless antennas


> The 75 ohm RG-6U equivelent cable is not suitable for 2.4 GHz wireless

> applications.

That's a shame.  I had to recrimp some RG6 the other day and
mechanically it's the sort of stuff I wish was good for 2.4GHz.  It's
quad shielded and and is full of a sticky goop in the shield which I
presume is to stop any sort of water ingress, as you would get in a
telecoms pit or on a pole.  
And F-connectors couldn't be easier to cut and crimp, no fangled
soldering.  So I checked out the RG6 specs and unfortunately it's 75ohm
and rated at 26dB (from memory) loss per 100m at 1GHz.  I hate to think
how it is at 2.4GHz.  Ho hum.  It might be alright with WiFi for short 
runs...

Tony Langdon - have you used RG6 in the wrong way?

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Cheers,
jASON
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