Eightwood RF RG174 Coax Coaxial Cable 50 feet

Nice coax, works well for my sdrplay pro2.

Good quality RG174 Coaxial Cable. Center conductor is stranded, but generous in amount of strands. This cable worked perfectly for my RF application. I highly recommend this product.

Works fine for my ham radio HF rig.

This is good RG-174. It is advertised as 50 feet and I got 50.055 feet. I attached SMA connectors and measured carefully. Here are some numbers some may find helpful:Propagation delay is about 1.62 nS/ftVelocity factor is about 62.8%Frequency-dependent attenuation, per 100 feet, can be computed with this formula: dB/100' = 0.6824 x f^0.5387 where f is the frequency in megahertz.For example, at GPS L1 frequency (1575.42 MHz), attenuation is 36.0 dB/100'. I actually directly measured 35.56 dB/100', so the formula is pretty much dead-on. This formula is only valid for this particular type of coax.

Used this cable to make a probe for a vintage VTVM, and worked very well, The wire is not too stiff and is flexible enough to be used for meter leads. The cable was easy to solder, and I did not have any problems soldering the ends to these cables.

I didn't know what to expect I guess.. I thought that there would be decent shields inside, but it appears barely shielded.

This stuff is shielded wire but I don't think it meets RG 174 specs. The shield is very loosely braided and is not tinned. In my experience 174 has a much tighter shield braid and the shield is tinned. The Amazon picture says shielded "tinned" copper braid -- but shows un-tinned. Again, in my experience un-tinned braid eventually causes noise issues. Other comments about the shied sticking to the outer jacket are correct -- will be hard to use in some applications. I am going to keep it, but I will not employ this stuff in any critical application.

We used this to dampen a noise issue on one of our projects where normal wires just wouldn't cut it. Worked great and came pretty quickly. Wasn't too difficult to strip away the exterior layers with a wire cutter. Would definitely buy some again for future endeavors.