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RE: Does video triaxial

I don't know about video cable.

Triaxial refers to the layers of conductors, not the type of dielectric. The original 10 mbps "fat" Ethernet cable was triaxial (two layers of shields) because the designer who specified this part of the standard was aware that "every wire is secretly an antenna". A trip to a local shopping mall and some readings on a field strength meter convinced the skeptics that the extra shielding was needed, worst case. (The mall was not far from a 50 KW AM radio station.) The choice between regular dielectric or the more expensive Teflon dielectric depended on where the cable was to run.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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