FreeSat, will this cable work?

[Siren]

I asked the electrican working on my house to bury wire for Freesat, not touch the actually dish but just lay it while he worked on two rooms. He supplied the cable.

U-JIN / TFC - T10 023 T600 - EEB

I've googled around and can't find an answer.

[Chris]

Don't know ... the correct grade for satellite coax is RG6 or PF100, preferably PF100 if any length of it is outside the house, as it's tougher. Could you ask him what he used? To be honest, it's a bit late to be worrying about it now he's buried it. ;) What colour is the sheathing?

[Kymmy]

Any 50ohm co-ax will do as long as you can put an F-plug on both ends.. ;)

The answers on satellite.co.uk are accurate

[Chris]

How does he know it's 50-ohm coax? Standard TV coax (RG59) is 75ohms. If the sparks has used that, he could have bother with it. ;)

[Kymmy]

Woops, that's my fault as I've just been stringing out a load of RG213 to my HF antenna which is 50Ohm..

Chris is right it should be 75ohm for video/tv/sat

[edit] Hey.. you;re now confusing me.. RG6 is 50 ohm :doh:

I need to lie down

[Chris]

You're not wrong to say the OP needs 50 ohm cable. My point is, that information is not useful to him unless you're also giving him some way of determining whether or not his cable is 50 ohm. ;)

It's easier to talk in codes like RG6 and PF100, which after all are there so that we don't have to describe the cable by laying out all the specifications that are hiding behind the designation.

[Kymmy]

Put it this way, the cable supplied is far superiour to RG6, so the answer to the thread title is YES

[Chris]

When one day you learn to cut to the quick and say that sort of stuff in your 1st post, rather than your 3rd, a Jedi will you be. ;)

[Kymmy]

But I want to be a smart Jedi not a thick one ;)

[Siren]

Thanks Jedi's. The signal is strong with this one?

[Kymmy]

:D :D :D

It's thicker more resilient cable and commonly used between static locations and places where good quality signal is needed (like CCTV areas) so yes is fine for sky though some would consider it overkill