Ok hams I know all you guys are cable experts-which cable do you use/prefer for a long run to a scanner? I'm only doing VHF-hi , and my tower is 100' from the house, due to oversized trees that I can't take down. So total run is about 150'. Without going off the deep end money-wise, is RG6 I'm using now, with a pre-amp good enough? I've been reading all about those other cables like the 80cents a foot stuff, but it doesn't seem practical unless it was being used for transmitting.....
All depends what impedence your scanner requires some scanners are 75 ohm. RG6 is 75 ohm cable. If you find out it requires 50 ohm cable a good quality low loss coax is like a LMR400 very low loss and works like a champ.
