[time-nuts] TAPR GPS Experimenters Kit

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Jun 4 22:06:23 EDT 2017


trojancowboy at gmail.com said:
>  A roof antenna with preamp that could drive 100 feet or so of foam RG-58 is
> required.

RG-58 is very lossy at GPS signal frequencies.

The sweet spot on the cost/performance chart is RG-6.  It's widely available 
as low loss cable TV.  It's slightly larger diameter than RG-59.  It's 75 
ohms, but the loss due to mismatch is small relative to the cable loss.


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