Dish to receiver distance?

[bonevoyage]

What is the approximate limit for the distance from dish to receiver. For example, is around 200 feet workable? (Sorry if the answer is elswhere and I missed it.)

Thanks.

[Reinhold]

I think it works,but you have to use a different cable.I think it is RG 11.
Sadoun sells it.Reinhold.

[Iceberg]

If you're running 200 feet, I suggest either RG6 quad shield or RG11

[Sadoun]

RG11 is Item #9 here:
http://sadoun.com/Sat/Order/Install/Coaxial-Cables.htm

[rainman]

it should work just fine. but use rg 11 coax.

[wejones]

THere is no need to go to RG11. I'm running approximately 250' and don't have any problem. I'm using RG6 from ribbon cable on my main dish, but also have a DTV dish with plain cheap Radio Shack RG6. At one time, I even had 175' of the RG6 ribbon cable spliced to about 75' of RG59, and even that worked fine, but I replaced that with 250' of ribbon. The only time I've had problems, has been with the Twinhan Starbox receiver, which has very poor sensitivity, but I have a splitter between my analog receiver and my digital receivers, and a diseqc switch going to a Fortec Ultra, going to a Twinhan 1020a, going to either a Broadlogic card or a GI 4200 DCII, and all these receivers have plenty of signal from 250' of RG6.
These are NOT weak signals that you need to worry about signal loss. Since there is an amplifier in the lnbf, these are really pretty strong signals.
Anyway, I can't comment on longer than 250', but up to 250' I wouldn't worry about signal loss.

[bobkat]

Yup, I agree with wejones. I've run well over 300 feet (actually over 800' at one job) using RG6 and the signal levels are still pretty good. RJ11 would be really expensive but of course, it would bring much higher signal levels. Anyway, for 200' RG6 is just fine. No inline amps needed.

kat