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OTA antenna cabling - RG59 work? (1 Viewer)

Rande

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Can I get away with the existing RG59 cables for my OTA antenna, rather than investing in RG6, for receiving digital OTA sigals? I'm 55+ miles from broadcast source, marginal signal reception despite huge antenna-amplifiers-55 foot antenna tower -etc, and am thinking cable may be part of frequent pixilation problems. All my satellite leads use RG6.
 

Steve Kinkead

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RG59 will attenuate the signal more than RG6, particularly for long runs. If you are having signal reception problems I would definately replace the RG59. The cost is minimal if you do it yourself.
Steve
 

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