[TowerTalk] Coax loss. Has anybody measured it ?

[Don]

Tektronix used nichrome coax for many of its passive probes, the almost 
perfect lossy cable! Pretty small coax though!! I would believe other probe 
mfrs used it too.

Don W7WLL

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Fahmie via TowerTalk
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 5:07 PM
To: Towertalk Reflector
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax loss. Has anybody measured it ?

How about maybe in a underground nuclear test bore hole, it would deliver 
the signal before the coax melted entirely (?).-Mike-

      From: Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax loss. Has anybody measured it ?

On 11/29/14, 10:36 AM, David Robbins wrote:
> You want some lossy coax?  I have a couple old rolls where both the center
> conductor and shield are nichrome.  VERY lossy stuff!
>
What would they use nichrome coax for? Some sort of test jig for heating?

For use in a refractory or corrosive environment? I think I've seen
hastelloy or something other superalloy.


I've seen stainless steel coax for cryogenic applications (very low
thermal conductivity going in and out of a dewar), but it had a thin
silver plating.  For microwave frequencies, the plating was thicker than
skin depth.

I've also seen delay line coax, where the center conductor is a tight
helix: the inductance/unit length is high so the propagation speed is
slow (and the Z is high, too). That stuff was quite lossy, although not
in a "dB/wavelength" sense.



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