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> At 11:47 AM 2/9/2005, Steve Katz wrote:
>
>
>> > I'd stick with RG6 Quad or 1/2" 75 Ohm TV hardline, which
>>is pretty much all
>> > the cable companies use.
>>
>>Not anyplace I've worked or lived!
>>
>>::Here in L.A., it's all they use. We have Time Warner Comms cable
>>throughout the west end, and all pole runs are 1/2" hardline and all
>>residential drops are RG6 Quad with a messenger wire molded into it.
>>Interior runs are RG6 Quad without the messenger wire. F11 isn't to be
>>found, at all -- although possibly in industrial buildings it is, I don't
>>know. My residential drop at home, which was installed in November 2000
>> to
>>replace an aging drop, is 250' long and RG6 Quad+Messenger. -WB2WIK/6
>
> OK folks, this thread serves to confirm that we're not normal people.
>
> Only subscribers to this list would
> a) know that there is more than one kind of "cable"
> b) know that cable TV companies use various kinds in various situations
> c) Actually go to the trouble to figure out what kind of coax they
> actually
> installed on your house.
> d) and then debate the merits of their choice.
>
>
> (we haven't gotten here yet, but we will)
>
> e) debate whether you could use the cable TV drop messenger wire and/or
> shield as an end fed wire antenna by shunt feeding against the grounding
> block, and then, whether the increased bandwidth from using both messenger
> and shield (making a bigger diameter antenna) is worth the increased loss
> from using the steeel messenger (or whether you could use it as a folded
> sloper)
>
> Jim, W6RMK
>
>
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