Coax Question
Hello:
Question on Coax.
I am presently using a 50 foot run of 50 ohm coax to my scanner.
It's the 0.4 inch low-loss diameter stuff (I think LMR 400), and I wanted to
add a short length of
a coax between this cable and the scanner to remove the strain on the
radio's connector due to the stiffness of
the LMR 400.
All I can find pre-assembled with BNC's is 75 ohm RG59.
It's about a 3 ft length.
a. Think the 3 ft radio-to-75 ohm patch cable, then to the 50 ohm main
cable will cause any "meaningful" loss
due to the Z mismatch ?
b. Would I have been better off using a 3 foot RG58 (50 ohm) patch cable,
even though the RG58 is really lossy around 1 GHz ?
Thanks,
Bob
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