Braided coax does radiate a little, there is no such thing as 100% braid. Thats why in the cable TV industry they have to use double braided coax in the headend, otherwise you can have a hell of a mess of stray RF in there.
Coax loss is due to I^2R losses and radiation (and connector loss but thats not really part of the cable). On 8/26/07, skipp025 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Jeff DePolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Line losses go up with VSWR, but coax doesn't radiate unless > > there are currents flowing on the shield, and those aren't > > a function of VSWR on the line. > > Wait a minute Jeff... what about that crappy low cost silver jacket > Super-flex Columbia branded coax I bought back in the 70's during > the CB boom... > > Some of the cheaper coax brands have less than about 70% shielding > making them pretty leaky to rf. It works just killer for adding a > little extra signal horse-power to a carrier current broadcast > station. Radiax without trying... > > :-) > > cheers, > skipp > > >
