[BC] Wave lengths (has migrated to coax construction)

[Brian Urban]

Triax used to be used extensively as camera cable for TV remote production.
You could run camera command/control as well as video through it.  Required
special adaptors at the camera and CCU.  It was a lot lighter and easier to
handle than multi-conductor camera cable.  I don't know what is used with
HD.


On 2/20/06 10:18 PM, "Milton R. Holladay Jr." <miltron at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Triax is/was made, but I don't know what it's used for, other than extra
> shielding........
> M
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> 
>> On Monday 20 February 2006 15:50, Dave Dunsmoor wrote:
>>> All this discussion on velocity factor, then coax construction caused me
> to
>>> wonder,
>>> 
>>> 1)    could a broadcast version of triax be built,
>> 
>>  Yes.
>> 
>>> 2)    would it be practical and,
>>> 
>>> 3)     would it be useful...?
>> 
>>  Probably not.
>>  The problem would be the connectors.
>>  Getting the inner inner out where it could be accessed.
>>  I suspect the connectors would cost more than a dual run
>>  of conventional line.
>> 
>>  I did have a theory once, about a similar senario, where the inner most
>>  carrier would be a fiber.
>>  Again, a connector problem.
>> 
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>> System checkpoint complete.
>> 
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