That's exactly what I was thinking. 1000' foot spools of flooded Commscope
RG-6 are well under $100 shipped, last time I bought some off eBay. That's
what I feed my Beverages with.
Having said that, I think it would be interesting to experiment with some
CAT5/6 sometime, just for the fun of it. :-)
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Rick Karlquist <richard@karlquist.com>wrote:
> I did some careful measurements of CAT5 cable ... The cable is fairly
> lossy, which is no surprise given the tiny wires. There doesn't seem to be
> any compelling reason to use it in place of RG-6.
>
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