A side story. I was the only 'customer' of a long run of that yellow cable, when we moved the 260 + 3/50's to a different location, I asked if they were going to reuse the cable. "Nope, cost to much to get it out of the roof trusses." I forget but it was a LONG run. Tektronix back in those days was still an engineering oriented company and all I had to do was mention it one day in the main cafeteria. Next thing I know I was followed back to the building with at least 10 engineers following me. I called and asked one one the facility department guys that knew about the cable no longer being used, and his reply was something like if it not there Monday I know nothing about it.
The bottom of the trusses were a good 15 if not more feet up. Five of us got it down and I came home with the cable on Sunday. My helpers would not take anything in $'s, the challenge was good enough. Make a great cable for my ham radio hobby. Today one would never get away with such .... -pete On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:39 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > > From: Paul Koning > > > The nominal OD of RG-8/U is .. within spec for Ethernet cable. > > Oh, OK. I was just used to the 10Mb cable we used being slightly larger > than > the 3Mb cable we used. > > > Also, Ethernet requires a solid inner conductor (for the tap) while > > RG-8/U may come stranded. (Maybe only in some variants, I'm not > sure.) > > As can be seen in the photos, the 3Mb stuff (at least, the stuff we used) > was > also solid. The diameter of the center was a little smaller on the 3Mb > than on > the 10Mb; .16mm versus .23mm; not sure if that was just happenstance, or > what. > > Noel > >
