Hey all newly registered member here,
Yeah, I'm new to the forum, but not new to getting satellite reception at my house.
Just to give you some back story, skip to the next paragraph if you don't care, and if you do care, then they have organizations that can help with that because you really shouldn't care. Anyways, I live in a jungle, the 'ole lady won't let me cut down any trees near the house, and it has finally boxed me into the point where I cannot pick up the Directv signal anywhere near the house. I need to move the dish out about 300' as the trench lies on the property, and I want the best possible setup that will help me watch some football games despite the fact that the 4 horsemen are outside my door with a natural event for the ages.
The main website has several RG11 cables available for purchase, but the price range is so vast, that I can hardly believe that it could be classified under the same type of cable. For instance, I can buy Wilson Electronics RG-11 Coax Cable 500 Feet (951155) for $357 = ($ 0.714 per ft.), or Belden Single RG-11 60-Braid Coax Cable 1000-Foot Spool Black (1523AC) for $250 = ($0.25 per ft.). I can see the difference between the 2 being shielding and cable thickness and whether or not it is clad or solid, even though it doesn't appear so from the propaganda included with the listing, but then I come across this: CommScope - RG11 Quad Shield Plenum Video Coaxial Cable- White (4101204-10) for $2779 = ($2.779 per ft). So $2.75 is a little more per foot that even 72 cents.
So the bottom line is that I'm not opposed to plunking down the 3 grand for the cable, but this stuff better be worth the price. As one of the founding members of the "I go over the top for housing infrastructure" club, I know that when I have a project such as hooking up a new water heater, it is not about getting hot water to the spots that need it, it is about getting the hot water to the spots that need it with all of the things considered top of the line, or even excessively overdone. Yeah, my friends will come over and not care that I have a tankless water heater so long as they can open every hot water nozzle in the house and receive hot water for as long as they can stand it. They will look to see what pressure relief valve I am using, and exactly who is the manufacturer of the tubing that I am using, along with what connectors are installed, and what are the material specifications, things like this. Yepper, it is a disease, but stuff works at my come hell or high water, and it isn't about getting stuff done, it is about getting stuff done with the best quality equipment possible, even if that equipment is ridiculously over priced.
Yeah, I'm new to the forum, but not new to getting satellite reception at my house.
Just to give you some back story, skip to the next paragraph if you don't care, and if you do care, then they have organizations that can help with that because you really shouldn't care. Anyways, I live in a jungle, the 'ole lady won't let me cut down any trees near the house, and it has finally boxed me into the point where I cannot pick up the Directv signal anywhere near the house. I need to move the dish out about 300' as the trench lies on the property, and I want the best possible setup that will help me watch some football games despite the fact that the 4 horsemen are outside my door with a natural event for the ages.
The main website has several RG11 cables available for purchase, but the price range is so vast, that I can hardly believe that it could be classified under the same type of cable. For instance, I can buy Wilson Electronics RG-11 Coax Cable 500 Feet (951155) for $357 = ($ 0.714 per ft.), or Belden Single RG-11 60-Braid Coax Cable 1000-Foot Spool Black (1523AC) for $250 = ($0.25 per ft.). I can see the difference between the 2 being shielding and cable thickness and whether or not it is clad or solid, even though it doesn't appear so from the propaganda included with the listing, but then I come across this: CommScope - RG11 Quad Shield Plenum Video Coaxial Cable- White (4101204-10) for $2779 = ($2.779 per ft). So $2.75 is a little more per foot that even 72 cents.
So the bottom line is that I'm not opposed to plunking down the 3 grand for the cable, but this stuff better be worth the price. As one of the founding members of the "I go over the top for housing infrastructure" club, I know that when I have a project such as hooking up a new water heater, it is not about getting hot water to the spots that need it, it is about getting the hot water to the spots that need it with all of the things considered top of the line, or even excessively overdone. Yeah, my friends will come over and not care that I have a tankless water heater so long as they can open every hot water nozzle in the house and receive hot water for as long as they can stand it. They will look to see what pressure relief valve I am using, and exactly who is the manufacturer of the tubing that I am using, along with what connectors are installed, and what are the material specifications, things like this. Yepper, it is a disease, but stuff works at my come hell or high water, and it isn't about getting stuff done, it is about getting stuff done with the best quality equipment possible, even if that equipment is ridiculously over priced.