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Belden Coax 9913 vs 9914

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 12:44 am
by SteeevO
I saw this on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/250-ft-Wire-Bel ... 060wt_1396

now I'm wondering what is better. Belden 9914 or 9913?

Randy??

Re: Belden Coax 9913 vs 9914

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:47 am
by unwiredadventures
What will be your application?

I try to stay with LMR (double shielded) style cables for VHF/UHF and higher frequencies especially with longer cable runs.

Here is a loss chart I found: http://www.w4rp.com/ref/coax.html

Re: Belden Coax 9913 vs 9914

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 1:06 pm
by SteeevO
It'll mostly be for HF. Need to rerun some coax around here and need coax for field day. I also have a need to use a small section of it for some wifi stuff around here... nothing serious.

Just thought that was a good deal for coax that is almost as good as 9913

Thanks for the chart!

Re: Belden Coax 9913 vs 9914

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 1:57 pm
by SteeevO
also just found this stuff:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wire-Belden-Com ... 903wt_1396

Specs:
http://www.belden.com/techdatas/english/9251.pdf
which looks even better than 9913 on HF freqs. I might pick some up. These coax deals are in San Diego.

Re: Belden Coax 9913 vs 9914

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 10:22 am
by unwiredadventures
SteeevO wrote:It'll mostly be for HF. Need to rerun some coax around here and need coax for field day. I also have a need to use a small section of it for some wifi stuff around here... nothing serious.
I'd recommend not using anything except a double shielded cable for WiFi. Even short runs can have excessive loss.

Re: Belden Coax 9913 vs 9914

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 1:47 pm
by SteeevO
Yeah I'm just doing a few little wifi runs around here. nothing really worth buying coax exclusively for. My main concern in HF. Ham radio is way higher priority than having wifi :D lol