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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Introduction
From: Steve Maki <lists@oakcom.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 20:54:31 -0500
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Gary-Joe,

I'd say 99.5% of the installed 50 ohm hardline base (by footage) is copper. Commscope tried their darndest to introduce their smoothwall hardline (both copper and aluminum) to the cellular industry, but it never caught on. One reason was that when you cut away the jacket to install a ground kit, smoothwall cable becomes very fragile - not so with corrugated.

Commscope eventually gave up on that and purchased Andrew.

Of course smoothwall 75 ohm was always the standard in the cable TV game, where they never needed to remove jacket except at the connectors.

-Steve K8LX



On 2/4/2017 19:33 PM, Gary wrote:

How much of the cable is copper? The telemetry folks went to aluminum
cable (big stuff with a smooth not corrugated solid shield )  a long
time ago....

Just Curious,

Joe kk0sd

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