[TowerTalk] Old Hardline

[Michael Tope]

Since we are on the subject of longevity and shelf life, I have an 
opportunity to purchase some old DB Products 1/2" foam hardline. It 
looks to be identical to Commscope/Andrew FSJ4-50B (dimension and loss 
numbers on the respective data sheets agree to 3 decimal places), so it 
looks like the Commscope/Andrew cable was originally a DB Products cable 
that got rebranded after Andrew merged with Allen Telecom. The Allen 
Telecom/Andrew merger occurred in 2003, so this cable is at least 16 
years old.

Anything I should wary of with hardline this old? Its a polyethylene 
jacket over a corrugated copper outer conductors with a foamed 
polyethylene dielectric.

73, Mike W4EF..............