From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <01b101c37986$3126a2a0$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <3F625DCA.5040100@ameritech.net> <01a001c37983$a440e960$b9844051@insultant.net> <3F62629D.20306@ameritech.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Old (hardware) are hard to break MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:32:54 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 33fd43de-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > As you can see, the BNC connector is a Male. The T, of course, has > female connectors on the arms of the T. That's why I wondered if > it was ok to connect the BNC adapter directly onto an arm of the T. i see. stick the adapter on the T and termininator on the other side of the T. you remember the vampire taps on think ethernet? sam principle. it was coax too, but high grade stuff, who name i forget, bu you're using RG-58 [50 ohms]. the high grade stuff had N connectors on the ends and was used for high [UHF/SHF] freq, high power and was low loss. iirc RG-58 losses are 3db/100m. it's good for VHF [< 300Mhz] but not so hot for UHF [> 300Mhz]. the high grade stuff was chosen for 1km 'rings'. you can see i wasted/spent a lotta time with radio stuff.