> I am in the process of setting up a Z3801A and would like to know what > type of cable I should use for a 50' run to an 58532A antenna.
What do you have handy? How nutty are you? If you have 50 ft of something, give it a try. I'm assuming you can try it easily, for example by tossing the cable out a window rather than going through all the effort of making a neat installation. One of the GPS manufacturers suggests using RG-6 even though it's 75 ohms rather than 50. The idea is that the low(er) loss at 1.4 GHz more than compensates for the impedance mismatch. RG-6 is cable TV gear. You can get it cheap. My antenna is inside my junk room. I'm using 25 ft of LMR-???. It's right on the edge of being good enough. My Z3801A runs out of satellites occasionally (once or twice per week). > Also I need to purchase one of the monitoring software programs for > this Z3801A, any suggestions. What do you want to monitor? Do you like programming? The specs are readily available. With a bit of hacking you can collect whatever info you want then feed it to your favorite graphing program. I use gnuplot. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.