What kind of cable?
#Will a 20m(65ft) cable from the receiver to the antenna work?
final topaz
final topaz
Ok but USB cable, Coax Cable, Ethernet Cable, Power Cable? Which one are you asking about?
final topaz
65 feet is pretty far unless your using really expensive coax. Any way you can get the feeder closer.
boreal raft
@hasty trout You'll really want to have an LNA adjacent to the antenna with that much coax run. And as also mentioned by others really good coax will be a necessity.
final topaz
You need to find the loss chart for the cable and look at the loss in db for 1Ghz, every 3 DB loss is half your signal lost.
Why do you need the cable to be so long?
final topaz
Does your PC run linux? That is a requirement.
Most people just use a Raspberry Pi so they can position it close to the antenna and they can just use our prebuilt sd carc image.
final topaz
33 feet of RG-58 would be 8db of loss, so only about 1/6th to 1/7th of your original signal would get to you. I mean it will work but you would be much better with LMR-240 or even LMR-400 if you want optimal signal.