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Replacing VHF antenna, uses RG5 cable?
- Mary-Bill
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Replacing VHF antenna, uses RG5 cable?
- km1125
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Re: Replacing VHF antenna, uses RG5 cable?
Your bigger concern is putting a splice near the antenna. While it "CAN" be done, doing it so it's virtually transparent to the transmitter is the bigger issue. If there's any reflection in the signal it will reduce your effective transmitting power. If the cable provided with the antenna is long enough to make the run in one piece, then I'd suffer through fishing the new wire from one end to the other.
Also, having an extra connection in the system introduces yet another point of failure that you'd rather avoid.
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Re: Replacing VHF antenna, uses RG5 cable?
On ours there is access behind the panels on the arch base......not sure of your model though.
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