| Bruce in Alaska 2005-07-24, 11:48 pm |
| In article <qdKdnekBSdCnk37fRVn-sA@giganews.com>,
"Will" < DELETE_westes@earthb
roadcast.com> wrote:
> I want a GPS for our server room and I'm having problems with the cable for
> the GPS antenna.
>
> I want to connect a Garmin Placer GPS to a Garmin Bullet antenna which will
> be roof mounted in a single story commercial building. The antenna is
> using F-Style connectors, so that part was easy enough.
>
> The GPS unit itself is SMA. So far the only way I have been able to cable
> this up is an SMA compression style connector to TNC, then TNC to BNC, then
> BNC to F Style. I'm using RG-6 rated to 3 GHz for the cable.
>
> I'm worried about all of these connectors introducing too much db loss. I
> have a loss budget of only 10 db for the cable. Does someone make a
> connector that would adapt the RG-6 more quickly to the SMA I have on the
> Garmin?
>
> What are the likely accumulated losses for the connectors I describe above
> if the signal is running around 1.7 GHz? What is the maximum cable length
> I will be limited to?
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Bruce in alaska
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