[time-nuts] looking at creative ways to route GPS signals through a home to a Thunderbolt

Scott Burris slburris at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 15:43:11 UTC 2009


Oh how embarrassing -- I have that exact message sitting in my inbox not 
yet read!
OK, good to know it works, I'll go with Plan C.

Scott

Ralph Smith wrote:
> This was discussed just yesterday.
> <http://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2009-April/037372.html>
>
> The short answer is that Plan C is just what Trimble recommends, with
> RG-59.  I have about 110 feet of RG-6 and it works wonderfully.
>
> Ralph
>
> On Wed, April 8, 2009 11:28 am, Scott Burris wrote:
>   
>> I have a Thunderbolt (thanks TAPR!) located in a second floor room of my
>> house which
>> has only an obstructed view of the sky.  There's no easy way to get to
>> that room, short
>> of putting an antenna on the roof and punching a hole in the wall to get
>> inside.  For some reason,
>> my wife takes a dim view of that plan.
>>
>> Plan B would be to mount the antenna near an attic vent, run the cabling
>> inside, go through the
>> attic and drill down into one of the inner walls to terminate in an
>> outlet box of some sort.
>>
>> So the dedicated time-nuts may laugh at plan C.  This is to mount an
>> antenna on roof near the garage
>> and connect to the RG6 CATV run from the garage to this room.  I'd guess
>> it's about 60-70ft of RG6.
>> Can RG6 pass the 1.5Ghz signal successfully?  Is the Thunderbolt
>> sensitive enough to be used this way?
>> Has anyone tried this?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
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