On 1/23/17 7:13 AM, REEVES Paul wrote:
Hi David,
Surely the impedance of the cable is only affected by the ratio of the inner
conductor and outer conductor diameters modified by the internal dielectric
constant, nothing to do with the frequency of operation. You might well have
problems converting the larger diameters down to a suitable size for the
connectors at the higher frequencies though....
I thought that the HP cabling for the 8510 series VNAs was air spaced but I
might well be wrong - I just tried not to damage them :-)
Regards,
I think the large outer diameter is essentially a soft armoring, which
limits the bend radius, which in turn limits the deformation of the
outer conductor and dielectric.
VNA test port cables also have very good shielding effectiveness as well
as stable propagation properties.
The underlying cable would have to be fairly small diameter, because
otherwise you'd get moding problems at high frequencies. At 60 GHz, the
cable really has to be smaller than a few mm diameter.
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