There is a huge amount of complete rubbish spouted about cables. If you don't have a radar station in your front garden then the cheaper stuff is more than suitable technically. The LNB brings the frequency down to a frequency which standard coax can cope with easily and the shielding is plenty good enough.I've got a roll of tele coax that I'm running under the floorboards in readiness for having sky installed, but then I thought, is this roll of wickes coax suitable for use with sky or must it be some super sexy stuff?
There is a huge amount of complete rubbish spouted about cables.I've got a roll of tele coax that I'm running under the floorboards in readiness for having sky installed, but then I thought, is this roll of wickes coax suitable for use with sky or must it be some super sexy stuff?
If you want to get a slight understanding of RF shielding at the approximate region of the radio spectrum being discussed go look at the door of your microwave oven. There are holes in the metal shield. You don't need 100% coverage to act as an effective Faraday Cage at the frequencies being used.
Actually your microwave doesn't leak like a sieve at all, unless you have somehow damaged it. In the same way cheap coax will work fine, unless you have damaged it (see my earlier post).
I also already preempted any attenuation argument in an earlier post. The LNB (B stands for Block) changes the frequency (see earlier post) and you are not getting satellite frequencies going down the coax as you claim.
And even so, you still won't have a problem with cheaper coax in a house.
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