22 May 2008

Magmount base, cable attenuation

Once I've seen the lossy look of the RG58 coax cable, I did a quick loss measurement with the MFJ-259:






MHz
dB
10
0.6
50
0.8
145
1.4

Given a cable length of 5 meters (I think), this is not the best performing RG58 ever.