Cable distance

[GreatFTA]

Hey yall!
I have a FTA system that consists of a FTA receiver, SG2100 HH motor drive, 1 meter Primestar dish, and a Invacom universal .3 LNBF. Everything is working great, at this point. Soon, I will be moving into my home I have been building and that mean that I will have to relocate my system. Because of the trees around my house I will have to have the dish farther from the receiver. I am estimating the distance of maybe 150 to 200 feet from the receiver to the dish.
What is the longest distance I can go that would not interfere with the FTA's signal/quality strength and the DiSeQc commands?

 

[airgator96]

I have mine at about 150 feet. I'm having no problems.

 

[PSB]

150-200' should be good, I would use the BEST quality quad shield RG6 you can get!

 

[Mr Tony]

I just did 200+ feet over the weekend at the lake and the signals were just as high as when I go 50 feet

 

[GreatFTA]

RG 6 cable question

I just did 200+ feet over the weekend at the lake and the signals were just as high as when I go 50 feet

Thanks guys!
One of you mentioned using a quad shield RG6 cable for long distance wiring. Where can I get this kind of cable? I have been using the Primestar RG6 cable with great results. I bought a roll of it that had like 500 to 600 feet left over from a friend who used to insall Primestar systems. It is dual cable so I pull apart what I need and still have lots to use in future installations.
By the way, this is the BEST site for the FTA infos. I been thru several sites and forums and by far, the Satelliteguys site is great! Love the new look, too.

 

[PSB]

Here is a link to a company that sells Quad Shield cable........ Never used them so beware (Shop around)!!!


http://www.hometech.com/techwire/coax.html#HT-RG6QB




I also suggest running two coax cable, this will future proof the install and "IF" one cable goes bad you already have a spare run. This is a great tip if you are burying any cable. (If you are there is also "flooded" RG6 available for underground runs)

I also suggest running two coax cable, this will future proof the install and "IF" one cable goes bad you already have a spare run. This is a great tip if you are burying any cable. (If you are there is also "flooded" RG6 available for underground runs)

 

[GreatFTA]

Thank you, PSB.

 

[PSB]

We are HERE to help

 

[N4ST]

I have a fixed dish on AMC4 mounted right next to the house, but am considering adding another dish with a motor. To get the angular coverage I want I will need to run ~125' of coax. If flooded cable is used is it OK to direct bury the cable or should it still be run in conduit?

 

[PSB]

BEST in conduit, but when I worked in cable TV (spit) it was all Flooded cable ONLY!

 

[bryanw20]

I'm running 350'+ from my SG2100 and my big dish to all my recievers. Not the best in quality, but everything is watchable with a cheap inline amp. I ran several runs of RG6 through a pvc pipe (at the time had one way direcPc (3 runs) and switching to starband 2 way (4 runs)) So no Ihave plent of spares as I have DSL Getting to the point, it's nice to have spares for adding on or if one goes bad.