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 full aluminum shielding (not braid).
I called Commscope and at first the tech thought it would be 50-ohm cable but
all
their 50-ohm stuff with the above characteristics has more writting on the
jacket.
So he thinks its probably more likely to be CATV cable at 75-Ohms. Probably
has a
loss of about 1.8-2 dB per 100ft at 2000 MHz. That's gotta be pretty low for
HF/6M!
Anyone out there familiar with this cable? I have a run of about 150-ft from
my
shack to my tower and wondering if it is worth it to replace the buryflex I
have in
there now with this stuff. I have 2 runs from shack to tower.
I'll probably get the cable pretty cheap...maybe about $25 for a couple large
spools but each only has maybe 150-200 ft on it. New N connectors will cost me
about $40 each. Then adapters from N to UHF.
The cable is pretty old....1996 but has been unused and on its original wooden
spool and stored outside.
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73,
Greg - AB7R
Whidbey Island WA
NA-065
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