Re: Dressing RG6

John Larkin <jjSNIPlarkin@highNONOlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2024 21:46:35 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
 

John Larkin <jjSNIPlarkin@highNONOlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2024 19:22:12 -0000 (UTC), "Don" <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
 

Phil Hobbs wrote:

Phil Hobbs wrote:

Don Y wrote:

I've several short (a few feet) lengths of RG6 that I
would like to "strongly coerce" into assuming a particular
dressing.
 
Securing the cables to a stationary surface isn't practical
without significantly lengthening them and distorting
their "natural" routing.
 
But, ISTM that I should be able to slip each cable into
a comparable diameter copper (?) pipe and then use traditional
tools to bend that pipe into the appropriate configuration.
I'd have to observe constraints like minimum bend radius
but are there other issues that I might "discover" down the
road?
 
 

 
You?re planning to make a random- length shotgun balun.

 
Bazooka balun.

 
The parasitic capacitance created between coax and its metal armor can
open a Pandora's box of potential problems.
 
Danke,

 
Capacitance between the coax outer and the copper pipe? Proper coax
shouldn't have any external field.
 
 

 
If the whole system is really coaxial, that’s true. Leaky shields, ground
loops, and so on, will modify that.
 
Depending on the application, you may or may not care.
 

 
Why can't he just use tie-wraps? Or hot-melt?
 
 

What a simplistic suggestion!

This is the Yuniskis world we’re talking about, where nothing is ever so
simple as it might seem.

You might as well suggest that Baer get a new computer!

(And in my world, RG-58 cables talk to each other all the time.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs



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