[time-nuts] Measuring coax temperature coefficient with a TICC

Scott Stobbe scott.j.stobbe at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 20:26:53 EDT 2017


A table of a bunch of rg6 catv permutations,
http://www.texcan.com/media/import/pdf/Electronic_Cable_RG6_RG59.pdf

At least on this list if it has a solid copper core, it also has a copper
braid shield. I'm sure there is many more permutations out there.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:00 PM Will Kimber <zl1tao at gmx.com> wrote:

> TV co-ax these days for satellite or UHF is almost all steel wire with
> copper plating.  In fact the 'F' connector that is used is designed to
> use that stiff wire as the center pin of the connector!
>
>
> Will
>
>
> On 04/20/2017 06:57 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
> > kb8tq at n1k.org said:
> >> I’d want to be pretty sure what the center conductor was made out of.
> I’ve
> >> seen some stuff in coax that “one would think† should not be there
> (copper
> >> over steel …).
> > Does that effect the propagation time?
> >
> > If I gave you a good scope picture of a pulse after going through chunk
> of
> > coax, could you figure out the ratio of copper to steel?  Would you need
> to
> > know the length or could you figure that out too?
> >
> >
> >
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