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Default Which is it, RG59 or RG6?

On Dec 10, 8:56*am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
Robert Macy wrote:

On Dec 9, 3:46 pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
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* *A 0 dB or higer signal will overload the front end of a FM radio. O
dBM is 1000 microvolts @ 75 Ohms. FM radios are supposed to work at full
quieting 10 microvolts. *Some of the -20 dB taps were labeled as FM Taps
and were supposed to have a bandpass filter on the output port but none
of the ones I tested in the lab did.

...snip...


being a bit pedantic,
0 dBm in a 75 ohm system is 273,861 microvolts rms


* *I meant 0 dBmv, which is used in TV Land.

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Understood. Thanks.