[MLB-WIRELESS] GAME: Identify this cable...

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Wed Jan 30 23:28:34 EST 2002


On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:00:39PM +1100, Tony Langdon, VK3JED wrote:
> >Just cleaned out the moonbus and found about 15 metres of black coax cable -
> >procured when I conviced the techy installing my bigpond modem a year ago to
> >give us extra.
> 
> Probably RG6 or RG11 - 75 ohm, and probably not suitable for our purposes.

I think it would be better than that - both my Foxtel cable TV
installation and my Optus broadband cable have standard cable
TV coax (hardline I think) all the way to the set top box/modem.

The 75 ohm comment still applies but it is likely significantly
lower loss than RG6.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>

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