Coax Cable

Coax cable has certain characteristics that make it more suitable for certain applications.

The picture to the right is RG58 Cellfoil, which is a low loss cable primarily used for external mobile phone aerials and in die-hard CB installation. As you can see it is double sheilded and has a solid centre conductor. The solid conductor and extra foil sheild minimise interferrence and transmission losses in low power systems, such as mobile phones. More expensive than the standard RG58, but makes up for it in performace.

Standard RG58 comes without the foil sheild and has a stranded centre conductor, useful in CB installations as it is more resilient to movement than Cellfoil. Bumping around in the 4WD is no problems for this cable.

RG213 is the big brother of RG58, still single sheild and stranded conductor, but lower loss than RG58 and Cellfoil. Useful in static sites where maximum transmission performance is required.

RFI 8058-1

RG58 Coax Cable

Single Sheild, Stranded Conductor

Suitable for most CB or 2-Way applications

RFI 9006-1 Low Loss

RG58 Cellfoil Coax Cable

Double Sheild, Solid Conductor

Used where low signal levels are expected

RFI 8213-1

RG213 Coax Cable

Single Shield, Stranded Conductor

Used in base station/repeater sites