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Re: [TowerTalk] Dont use nylon zip ties on coax

To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Dont use nylon zip ties on coax
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:50:55 -0700 (PDT)
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BTW, where do you buy those coax grips that work
like Chinese finger puzzles?

Rick N6RK


Tom Osborne wrote:
> Electrical tape can do the same thing if you just pull it to break it off
> instead of cutting it.  Just pulling on it can really cinch it up tight.
> 73
> Tom W7WHY
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>
>
> Relaying info from Belden and other coax manufactures. Don?t use zip ties,
> nylon or other wise and cinch them down tight. Every time you do that it
> changes the impedance by changing the diameter of the shield in
> relationship
> to the center conductor.
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