A time domain reflectometer would eliminate the guess work and show you where
the defect was on the line.
73 de na6m
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 13:19, Ray Benny <rayn6vr@cableone.net> wrote:
>
> 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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