Patrick,
I had a case once of a shorted coax due to a manufacturing defect. The coax
was a 100 ft piece. I had first cut off the connectors one at a time but
found the coax still shorted. I cut the coax in half, one half open, the
other shorted. I kept cutting the shorted section in half until I had about
a 6 inch shorted piece remaining. I slid off the braid and found that
during the manufacturing process the center conducted was bent outward and
through the dielectric causing a direct contact with the braid. Don't know
why the short was not caught in a QC check, but maybe only random
pieces/rolls were checked.
In the end, I still had 50ft of coax to use, plus a bunch of shorter
pieces...
Ray,
N6VR
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick
>
> Don't think I'd cut them in half.
>
> I'd just cut the plugs off and replace them and check the cable again.
> Might be something in the plugs that are bad and you would be wasting a
> bunch of cable.
>
> If still bed, then start cutting them. 73
> Tom W7WHY
>
>
> On 12/15/2014 8:09 AM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
>
>> I'm going to cut the bad jumper in half and test the halves and then cut
>> the bad piece in half and test those pieces. Whichever is bad will then be
>> dissected carefully to see, if possible, what was physically wrong with the
>> coax. This is a real head scratcher for me. The good news is I'm back on
>> the air with a pan adapter full of signals again and loving it.
>>
>> Patrick NJ5G
>>
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