- 1. [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: Greg - AB7R <ab7r@cablespeed.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:30 -0400
- Looking for some assistance identifying some cable. The only writing on the jacket is 1996 COMMSCOPE. It's about 7/8 diameter, copper center conducter, a fairly stiff foam (I think) dialectric and a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00203.html (8,196 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: TexasRF@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:43:31 EDT
- Most of these foam filled cables have a velocity factor in the 80 to 85% range. You can do a rough calculation based on that, the center conductor o.d. and outer conductor i.d. to approximate the cha
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00204.html (8,518 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: Gene Smar <ersmar@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:02:50 -0500 (CDT)
- Greg: Let's do the math and you decide whether the conversion to this Commscope cable is worth it: cable on reels: $25 4 N connectors (2 runs to tower): $160 Total cash outlay: $185. Non-monetary out
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00205.html (9,647 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: "Blake Bowers" <bbowers@mozarks.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:14:27 -0500
- With a lot of commscope cable over 6-7 years old you can have LOTS of issues finding connectors. Battling with that now. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an o
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00206.html (11,767 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jruing@ameritech.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:08:42 -0400
- Hi Gene = Richards Rule = If you fix something long enough... eventually, you will break it. == Richards - K8JHR == Remember Hoppman's law: The more you leave it alone the better it works. == _______
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00212.html (7,726 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:08:33 -0700
- I remember seeing cable looking and labeled like that stacked up behind one our Head Ends when I worked for the cable company, no one knew what it was then, that's why it was rotting in the sun unuse
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00213.html (9,123 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: Gene Smar <ersmar@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:55:07 -0500 (CDT)
- And finally, Zimmerman's Law: If, while repairing something, it starts working again, and you don't know what you did, then you didn't repair it. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F Hi Gene = Richards Rule = If you
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00218.html (8,092 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TowerTalk] Cable question (score: 1)
- Author: Richards <jruing@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:42:49 -0400
- Oh...well.... that about sums up everything I ever touched in my shack. Thanks. == Richards - K8JHR == _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-09/msg00226.html (7,813 bytes)
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