Which Coax

[andy5600]

Hello all,
Looking for some advice,
Moved into a top floor flat so my plan is to run a permanent cable from the (my) loft space down behind the wall in to my living
room directly below. My aerial(s) would all be inside the large loft and be for civil air & marine and possibly mil air. (combined into one feed?)
I have read that Webro WF100 cable should be good for this??, terminate the cable in a wall plate, satellite type?? that i can plug
my scanner(s) into with a patch lead. The loft end of coax cable would also have some sort of plug or socket.
Any advice is much appreciated on what set up would be best.

[ch25]

White CATV coax will work perfect.

[bigpimp347]

satellite coax is fine although is 75ohm but for RX won't make much difference.
if it's not being moved, then satellite, cable TV type stuff is cheap and easy to source.

you could go to the extreme of minimal loss FSJ1-50 RG223, and LMR-200 but the difference may not be noticable.

[andy5600]

Hi guys,

Thanks for that,
I had a further thought and that was to use twin core coax (satellite) so i could dedicate one line to civil air antenna and the
other for marine band one.
Just want to do the coax down the back of the wall once so if satellite coax is ok as you say i will
use that.

[Andy]

Single or double, satellite co-ax is great for receiving. It's flexible, lightweight and cheap. It's also well-screened. Fit a suitable f-con on the end and adapt as necessary. I've had CT100 on all my receivers (20 kHz to 2 GHz) for years and it lasts well.

[andy5600]

Thanks for the replies,
Have been busy with the measuring tape, 8 metres is the length of coax i will
need, so satellite stuff will do for this?.
Been reading stuff about signal loss and ohms....but not sure what that is all about tbh.

[ch25]

Don't worry about that.
If you measured 8m, buy 10.
Chris