Need Help Please

[travisnj]

I understand that the max length for coax is 75ft.

How can you extend that 75ft limit?

Amp? Switch? I need to run twice the distance for a ground installation to get good view.

[William Eng]

I got 100 feet of cable going from the satellite to my media box and probably another 80 feet from my media box to the receiver. Total cable >180 feet, but still works. You do need a high quality connector, not the regular connectors for cable TV.

[Reinhold]

The recommended maximum length is 100',after that you can run RG11 cable .
Reinhold.

[rainman]

alot of the guys are running 200' on RG6 cable I am running a 100' myself on RG6 with no problems.

[travisnj]

I will use RG6 and I am certainly going to have to be around 120' MAX.. But good feedback, just didn't want to waste more money...

[wejones]

As far as the sat signal is concerned, I wouldn't worry until you were close to 300'. I'm running about 225' on one cable, and something near 250' on the other one. And one of my cables is about 175' of RG6 spliced to 50 or 75' of RG59, which is far from ideal, but works fine.
Now I am not "yet" trying to drive a motor off this, so there could be a problem there, but I doubt that it would do more than just slow it down a bit. I'm hoping to try out my new motor for the first time tomorrow, so I'll find out. I put a pole in a possibly temporary hole (used a 10 year old bag of concrete, and it doesn't look like it is going to set up right), and hopefully I can plop the little dish on it tomorrow and try out the motor. Right now I just have the dish mounted on a 3x3 bolted to a log.

[satnutwillb]

100' of RG6 here with no problems.

[Iceberg]

75 feet on most of my setups and 140 feet on 2 receivers. Same signal as the front rooms

[bobkat]

Originally Posted by Reinhold

The recommended maximum length is 100',after that you can run RG11 cable .
Reinhold.

According to whom? I've run upwards of 400 feet with little signal loss.

kat