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"Larry" wrote in message
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(Bob) wrote in
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but never, never, never ever use rg 58 cable. it's not shielded
properly. it has high loss.
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Hogwash. There's RG-58 in every boat I work on and it works just
fine....all the way out to the radio horizon....which, of course, is the
limit of comms on VHF. At 50' if 2 watts makes it up there, it's full
quieting at 10 miles.

Besides, I can't imagine running hardline through those little holes to
the
masthead....(c;

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Larry

I would agree that RG58 is very common. Its cheap and easy to run.
Probably gives acceptable performance on most boats. I recently replaced
mine with a single run of RG213 from masthead to radio. Didn't think I
could pull RG8 up the plastic pipe inside my mast and the RG213 was
recommended by a local communications shop so that's the way I went.
Sitting at the top of my mast I was getting pretty tired pulling up 50 feet
of 213. That stuff gets heavy. RG8 would be worse.