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Old 12-18-2007, 12:25 PM
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I agree.
For satellite stuff, good RG-6 is sufficient.

I do some ham repeater work, and using big diameter hardline is almost a necessity to get the thing to hear mobiles and handhelds from any decent distance away from the repeater.

Using the same theory, I bought some RG-11 to use on my UHF antenna for HD OTA signals. I was using RG-6 and some of the canada UHF stations are just on the edge of not being received (they blink the lock light on my OTA receiver).

So I put the RG-11 on it to see if it would pull in the Canada stations. Nope, pretty much the same reception as before. RF is RF, I surely would have thought it would have made a big difference, but it didn't.

RG-11 is thicker, heavier, harder to manipulate thru the walls, and uses special connectors (different from RG-6) so your crimp tool is probably no good on it.

For digital satellite, having a digital lock at 70% with RG-6, then 75% with RG-11 will make absolutely NO increase in picture resolution or quality. It will be the same. Analog TV is different, but from my experience RG-6 is just fine.
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