RG-6 works great for receiving. It's low-loss, easy to find, and cheap. You buy it premade at Home Depot or Lowe's with F connctors on it, and just use adapters on the antenna and radio. I've done this many times and had excellent results. Don't worry about the 75~50 Ohm impedance mismatch, as it simply doesn't matter when compared to the low-loss and easy availability of RG-6. One of my friends went so far as to replace his RG-6 with 9913 because he was worried about the mismatch, and he could see NO DIFFERENCE other than his wallet was considerably lighter! The loss difference at 1GHz between RG-6 and 9913 is about 1.5dB per 100, whereas the price difference is about 50 bucks. I'll take the $50! 73, Jim KQ6EA
--- Michael Tondee mat_62@netcommander.com wrote:
Due to some money issues, I had to sell all my sat gear including my beloved TS-2000X. I've been going through some of my old gear and rustled up a Radio shack VHF/UHF scanner that covers ham frequencies. Do you think it would be possible to hear the FM sats with it? I have a homebrew 11 element linearly polarized yagi and I can still track the sats via computer rotator control. I can make it where I have a short run of cable to the antennas since I don't have preamps anymore. I'm also wondering about using some 75ohm RG6 quad shield satellite TV cable for receiving. Would this be better or worse than 9913 with the scanner? Kind of grabbing at straws here but I'm wondering if anyone thinks it would work before I invest too much time into it. Tnx and 73, Michael, W4HIJ _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb