[time-nuts] looking at creative ways to route GPS signals through a home to a Thunderbolt

Ralph Smith ralph at ralphsmith.org
Wed Apr 8 15:35:51 UTC 2009


This was discussed just yesterday.
<http://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2009-April/037372.html>

The short answer is that Plan C is just what Trimble recommends, with
RG-59.  I have about 110 feet of RG-6 and it works wonderfully.

Ralph

On Wed, April 8, 2009 11:28 am, Scott Burris wrote:
> I have a Thunderbolt (thanks TAPR!) located in a second floor room of my
> house which
> has only an obstructed view of the sky.  There's no easy way to get to
> that room, short
> of putting an antenna on the roof and punching a hole in the wall to get
> inside.  For some reason,
> my wife takes a dim view of that plan.
>
> Plan B would be to mount the antenna near an attic vent, run the cabling
> inside, go through the
> attic and drill down into one of the inner walls to terminate in an
> outlet box of some sort.
>
> So the dedicated time-nuts may laugh at plan C.  This is to mount an
> antenna on roof near the garage
> and connect to the RG6 CATV run from the garage to this room.  I'd guess
> it's about 60-70ft of RG6.
> Can RG6 pass the 1.5Ghz signal successfully?  Is the Thunderbolt
> sensitive enough to be used this way?
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> Scott
>
>
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