22 Jan
2018
22 Jan
'18
3:36 p.m.
On 1/22/18 3:06 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
I'm trying to remember what kind of cable it used;
IIRC it was black coax,
with a woven shield (i.e. not solid like CATV), not quite as large in
diameter as the yellow 10Mbit stuff. To connect up to it, one clamped on a
connector thingy, which had a threaded hole in it over the cable; one then
screwed in a cylindrical cutter which made a hole through the shield, and one
then screwed in a transceiver (which was a box about 2"x2"x4", IIRC).
Hopefully someone has a picture somewhere?
It's 75 ohm cable TV impedence (RG11?)
I use RG-59 and BNCs for my Alto networks at CHM.
You can pull the stingers off of the silver transceiver boxes easily and replace it with
a
BNC female socket.
I've got a chunk of the orange plenum stuff with the vampire taps and terminators in
storage.