[time-nuts] Thunderbolt antenna

Volker Esper ailer2 at t-online.de
Sun Mar 10 21:21:43 UTC 2013


To me, that seems to be a much more important issue than suggestions 
about the right cable.
Volker

Am 10.03.2013 21:48, schrieb Bob Camp:
> Hi
>
> You do need to be a little careful with gain. Past a certain point, you do no more good for the noise figure of the system , but you do degrade the overload performance.
>
> Bob
>
> On Mar 10, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R<caf at omen.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I bought one of the 40 db gain GPS antennas that were on Ebay
>> some time ago.  I had been using a mushroom style antenna with
>> an rg-59 lead that came with one of the Thunderbolts.  I have
>> maybe 75 feet of rg-6 lead in.
>>
>> Rg-6 sold for satellite dishes or cable companies should do just fine
>> without requiring a second mortgage on one's house.  Try to liberate
>> some from your cable guy or order some from pchcables.com.
>>
>> -- 
>>      Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX   caf at omen.com   www.omen.com
>> Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
>>   Omen Technology Inc      "The High Reliability Software"
>> 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231   503-614-0430
>>
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