[TowerTalk] Identifying Teflon Cable

dw bw_dw at fastmail.fm
Fri Sep 11 14:53:43 EDT 2015


I'm pretty sure RG142 or RG303 are both used for toroid baluns.
If I remember they are spec'd out by the W2DU choke balun.
12 turns wrapped pretty tight around an FT-240-61.


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 09:46 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:30:48 -0400
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>
> To: TowerTalk <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Identifying Teflon Cable
> 
> Thanks for all the quick replies.  Most guessed RG-142, but the 
> copper-coated steel center conductor pretty well disqualifies it from 
> the flexibility standpoint.  I think AB3CV hit it with his suggestion of 
> RG-400, which has a 19-strand copper center conductor and an overall 
> diameter close to the cable I have.
> 
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> 73, Pete N4ZR
> 
> ##  A magnet should stick to any copper coated steel center conductor. 
> 
> Jim  VE7RF
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