Tom, I guess you meant to say that "Type HN and others, including UHF, are far more suitable for high voltage operation."
> The worse connectors are BNC, F, and type N. Type HN and others, including > UHF, are far more. Mike N2MS ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom W8JI <w...@w8ji.com> To: mstang...@comcast.net, Chuck Hutton <charle...@msn.com>, Richard Rick Karlquist <rich...@karlquist.com>, Top Band Reflector <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:27:35 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Topband: RG-6 questions I better correct two pre-coffee typos I made: > That is NOT the voltage breakdown of the coax from center to shield. That > is a wiring class voltage, similar to the jacket punch-through to a bare > external conductor. > > If you take regular foam dielectric "RG6" (which is almost never a real > RG6 style) cable and strip back the end, and high pot the cable, the > center to shield dielectric breakdown of cable ***withOUT** a flaw is over > 12 kV. This means modern RG6-type (which was also called "F6" and isn't a real RG6 military number with copper shield and solid dielectric), if it does not have a serious internal flaw, at even a remotely reasonable SWR, is heat limited. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband