I am planning a basic base station for my home and am trying to determine the best location for my antenna on my roof.
My house is is a standard suburban neighborhood with rolling hills for terrain. It is located in a lower spot in the terrain. I will be using a simple 1/4-wave ground plane antenna fed by LMR-400 for now. I have two locations where I could put my antenna. One location would put the antenna at about 22 ft AGL fed by about 20 ft of coax. The other location would be at about 26 ft AGL with about 55 ft of coax.
Which would be better as far as signal range?
Or maybe more basically, will the roughly 1 dB of signal loss, due to the 35 more ft of antenna cable, negatively affect the signal range more than getting the getting the antenna 4-5 ft higher above the ground?
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I am planning a basic base station for my home and am trying to determine the best location for my antenna on my roof.
My house is is a standard suburban neighborhood with rolling hills for terrain. It is located in a lower spot in the terrain. I will be using a simple 1/4-wave ground plane antenna fed by LMR-400 for now. I have two locations where I could put my antenna. One location would put the antenna at about 22 ft AGL fed by about 20 ft of coax. The other location would be at about 26 ft AGL with about 55 ft of coax.
Which would be better as far as signal range?
Or maybe more basically, will the roughly 1 dB of signal loss, due to the 35 more ft of antenna cable, negatively affect the signal range more than getting the getting the antenna 4-5 ft higher above the ground?
Thanks,
John
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