X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Sender-Id: _forwarded-from|204.111.64.149 X-Sender-Id: _forwarded-from|204.111.64.149 X-MC-Relay: Forwarding X-MailChannels-SenderId: _forwarded-from|204.111.64.149 X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: mail2world X-Zesty-Continue: 07ec3835113b30fa_1604346433699_47855772 X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1604346433699:284831286 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1604346433699 auth-sender:gheskett AT shentel DOT net From: "Gene Heskett (gheskett AT shentel DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Organization: none,nada,zip To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] OT: cable recommendation Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 14:47:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <202011021447.11804.gheskett@shentel.net> X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Nov 2020 19:48:09.0549 (UTC) FILETIME=[174E67D0:01D6B151] Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com On Monday 02 November 2020 12:19:08 Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > Hey folks, I'm sorry for the off-topic post, but there's a great > concentration of experience here and I need a bit of help. > > I need a length of cable to repair an instrument. I'm unable to > determine what make/model the original cable is, so I'm looking for a > recommendation for a currently-available replacement. > > It needs to have two internal conductors 28AWG or maybe 26AWG, and > a separate shield. But here's the trick: This is for a probe, so it > needs to be very flexible, like silicone or something similar. > Call and talk to Susan Clark at Clark Wire & Cable in Chicago. She has the original star-quad mike cable, and may have something smaller in 2 conductor + foil and braided shielding thats just as flexible. She also has a super flexible 75 ohm coax, with a shielding effectiveness of 110 db. I put several miles of both in a tv station while I was the C.E., cleaning up the signals that west penn stuff leaked like a colander and never regretted a foot of it. > I only need one piece of this cable, 6 or 8 feet, so if anyone > happens to have something lying around that might work, please let me > know. Otherwise, can anyone here recommend a currently-available > replacement? > > Thanks, > -Dave Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page