[FedCom] Shack upgrade suggestion

[Tom]

I concur with that. Everything won't work for squat if you're losing 90%
of your signal in some mediocre coax run. RG-58 is OK for short runs on
HF, but unacceptable at VHF/UHF/800. RG-8 and the smaller RG-8X is OK for
short runs at VHF, and that's all. By "short runs" I mean less than 50
feet.

There is a coax cable loss chart at
miked2000.home.mindspring.com/loss.htm that shows the losses for various
types of cable.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, J&D Schnoor wrote:

My suggestion is to upgrade to something a little better than RG-8.  Since
you are willing to spend the time and money to upgrade, do yourself a favor
and get 9913 or better for the scanner.  Some of the weak signals can really