DP or DPP with rg-7 and rg-11

[webbydude]

This is more oriented towards the installers out there.

Theoritical maximum distance with DP or DPP using rg-6 is 200 feet. Perhaps a bit more if you're so inclined

With that said, what would be the furthest a person should feel most comfortable with using either rg-7 or rg-11?

 

[volkodav]

i used RG-11 over 450 ft, signal was at about 60's. SD dish was on roof 32nd floor and DP 34 was on 30 floor and then receiver was on 5th floor of American Express building in Minneapolis. then i had to re locate receiver because i didn't get 121 down there.

 

[webbydude]

Hmm...that brings up an interesting point. Did keeping the DP 34 switch in-between (several floors, no less!!) the SD and receiver actually help?

 

[volkodav]

i wanted to put switch on 20th and 10th floors but maintenance guy would not let me cut lines because there was 10 RG-11 running down through there. By having the switch only 2 floors away didn't make much difference. I couldn't test it in different locations though.

 

[volkodav]

another test we did in office before dish came out with DP technology. Discovery store in Mall of America wanted us to install Discovery channel at there store when we came to do site survey, according to the engineers the run was about 1000 ft from roof to the store so we came to the office and experimented we used 96" dish and 2 500 ft spools of RG-11. it didn't work with 1000 ft we tried bullet-amps still wasn't much help but it worked with just 1 500 ft spool

 

[woodybeetle]

try using a lband amplifier to hold the signal strength up.