On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:18:53 -0400, Carl wrote:
>The original WW2 era RG-8 was built to meet a military spec
And it's been nearly that long since RG-numbers defined anything
more than Zo and approximate dimensions. There are about 50 RG59s
and a dozen RG8s in the Belden book. A 40-year old Belden catalog in
my files had about half that number.
In the real world, RG8 means "50 ohm coax that's approximately 0.4
inch o.d.." If you assign more specs to it than that, you've slept
through the last 50 years. Variations come in the form of specs for
loss vs frequency, composition of jacket, shield, dielectric, and
center conductor, and the ability to withstand various environmental
applications. In the olden days, coax was used mostly for low power
radio. Over the last 60 years, uses have included baseband video,
data, MATV, CATV, and radio.
73,
Jim Brown K9YC
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