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Subject: [TowerTalk] Marking Coax Cables
From: rthorne@tcac.net (Richard Thorne)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 07:52:39 -0600
Radioshack sells cable labels.  I use them a lot on my coax cables and
my servo's leads on my remote control planes.

It looks like a piece of scotch tape with a white end that you can write
on.  When your done wrapping it on, the written area is covered by tape
so the ink is protected.

GALE STEWARD wrote:

> I recently read that a good way to mark coax cables
> (think it was at W4AN's station) used different
> colored tape applied to the cables to show the
> different bands, etc.  I've been looking but have yet
> to find a "set" of tape with more than three colors.
> Since one of the colors was black, there were only two
> colors available to use on black coax!  It would be
> nice to find a set with nine colors like the resistor
> color code.  Anyone ever run across something like
> this?
>
> 73, Stew  K3ND
>
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Richard Thorne
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