Any experts care to answer? @ RG-6
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RG59 will work for Legacy Dish Network equipment, but not DishPro
What are you running (Dish or Direct)?
What are you running (Dish or Direct)?
It's all about shielding and conductor size. If your system is DISH, and you change to dp, RG-59 does not have the freq. range of a good Rg-6. Not all RG-6 is created equal. There's RG-6, good for inside and OTA, RG-6U, sat, OTA and can be buried, then there's RG-6QS, the extra shielding provides more protection from noise, also according to the SBCA, satellite trainers, the coax must be RG-6 60% shield, copper conductor. If your RG-59 is working now it may not much longer, with all the new switch combinations that is just that much more bandwidth needed for everything to function properly.
Your having about a 7-15 dB loss of signal per 100' with RG-59. That's one thing that I forgot to mention. RG-6 about 3-6dB.
rg-6 (more bandwidth) less loss
I would recommend that you upgrade to RG-6 U. I even use it for my Over the air antenna. I would never use anything less on any satellite system. The RG-6 QS is the very best. Some folks just don't want to spend a little extra money for it.
On satellite systems that must have long cable runs I even use RG-11. It has a #14 AWG center conductor. Very low loss.
You are definitely losing some signal to the RG-59. During inclimate weather when rain clouds are very tall, you will experience more sat signal outage with the RG-59 as opposed to RG-6.
I would recommend that you upgrade to RG-6 U. I even use it for my Over the air antenna. I would never use anything less on any satellite system. The RG-6 QS is the very best. Some folks just don't want to spend a little extra money for it.
On satellite systems that must have long cable runs I even use RG-11. It has a #14 AWG center conductor. Very low loss.
You are definitely losing some signal to the RG-59. During inclimate weather when rain clouds are very tall, you will experience more sat signal outage with the RG-59 as opposed to RG-6.
For sub-1000MHz that is correct, however, the loss accelerates as the frequency gets higher. 8-10dB/100ft is more realistic for DBS applications.bcope9 said:
