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From: John Larkin <jjSNIPlarkin@highNONOlandtechnology.com>
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Subject: Re: Dressing RG6
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 20:51:09 -0700
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On Wed, 15 May 2024 01:52:34 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

>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!

Thank you.

The more one engineers something, the simpler it should get.