RG11 Dual Shield Direct Burial Cable - 14 AWG CCS, Underground Rated, 1000ft Black

RG11 is the coax for the run that's too long for RG6, and this is the version for the run that also goes into the ground. With a 14 AWG center conductor and a dielectric nearly twice the diameter, it loses roughly a third less signal per foot than RG6 across the CATV and satellite band, which is the difference between a 300 ft buried feed that needs an amplifier and one that doesn't. The polyethylene jacket is rated for direct burial without conduit: it doesn't absorb water, it shrugs off the acids and alkalis in soil, and it's UV stabilized for the stretch that runs above ground at each end. Underneath is dual-shield RG11: a 14 AWG copper-clad steel center conductor in a foam dielectric, a bonded aluminum foil and a 60% aluminum braid, rated to 3 GHz for cable TV, satellite, DOCSIS, and MoCA.

It's the trench from a dish or antenna pad to a distant building, the feed between two buildings across a yard or a parking lot, and the underground service drop that's simply too long for RG6. It comes on a 1000 ft wooden spool, in black, with descending footage marks so you always know how much is left.

Features

• Lower loss than RG6. The larger 14 AWG conductor and 7.1 mm dielectric cut attenuation by roughly a third per foot, for buried feeds past the point where RG6 needs an amplifier.
• Direct burial polyethylene jacket. Water-resistant, soil-resistant, and UV stabilized, so it goes straight into a trench without conduit and survives the exposed ends.
• Dual shield. 100% coverage bonded aluminum foil plus a 60% aluminum braid, the standard construction for CATV and satellite distribution.
• 14 AWG copper-clad steel center conductor. The steel core gives the pull strength a long buried run needs and the copper skin carries the signal.
• 75 Ω, swept to 3 GHz. Covers cable TV and DOCSIS to 1.2 GHz, satellite IF to 2.15 GHz, and MoCA to 1.675 GHz.
• 260 lb pulling tension, 4 in bend radius. The margin for a long pull through buried conduit where one is used.
• RoHS compliant.
• 1000 ft wooden spool, black. Descending footage marks on the jacket; put it on a spool stand and it pays out cleanly.

Where It Fits

It suits buried satellite dish and antenna feeds of 150 ft or more from a pad or mast to the building, underground CATV and broadband service drops that are too long for RG6, building-to-building backbones across a campus, farm, or industrial site, feeds to outbuildings, guest houses, and remote equipment shelters, rural satellite and antenna installations where the dish sits a long way from the house, and any outdoor coax run that spends part of its life underground and needs every dB it can keep.

Good to Know

RG11 needs RG11 connectors. At 10 mm the jacket is far too big for an RG6 compression fitting, so use RG11 compression F connectors and an RG11 stripper and compression tool, and outdoors use the weather-sealed type with a rubber O-ring, wrapped or booted at any exposed joint. Bury the cable below the frost line where there is one, and deep enough to clear a shovel or a tiller; a run of sand or a warning tape above it is cheap insurance. Keep the bend radius above 4 inches and the pulling tension under 260 lb, and don't kink it going into the trench; a kinked foil shield doesn't recover. Where the cable enters the building, bond the shield to the electrical service ground through a grounding block, as the NEC requires for anything coming in from outside, and leave a drip loop so water runs off before the entry point. The polyethylene jacket has no indoor flame rating, so the NEC limits it to about 50 feet inside the building from the point of entry; past that, splice to a CM-rated RG11 or, for the last drop to each outlet, an RG6. Copper-clad steel is fine for RF and for the low DC currents of a satellite LNB, but if a long buried run has to power an amplifier, a solid-copper cable has much lower resistance.

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