Antenna Extension Cable
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:28 am
I have a DL-1 and would like to mount the GPS antenna in a location that would require an extension cable. The connectors for the antenna are listed as an SMA type and the I think the cable is marked as RG-174. Thought it would be a fairly simple task to find a 10' RG-174 cable with male and female SMA connectors. Not exactly. After a fair amount of searching I have finally found a couple options.
One cable has the correct connectors but uses LMR-195 cable, which is 50 ohm cable but about twice as thick as the RG-174 and lower loss. Any idea if this will work? I did find another cable that uses RG-174 but it is a male to male cable so I would have to add a F-F adapter which would have some additional loss, not sure if this would be an issue.
Any advice you can provide would be much appreciated.
One cable has the correct connectors but uses LMR-195 cable, which is 50 ohm cable but about twice as thick as the RG-174 and lower loss. Any idea if this will work? I did find another cable that uses RG-174 but it is a male to male cable so I would have to add a F-F adapter which would have some additional loss, not sure if this would be an issue.
Any advice you can provide would be much appreciated.