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

[Mike McCarthy]

Triax is used at most sporting events and venues as well as being standard 
on most larger/higher end production trucks.  While fiber is starting to 
make inroads to the venues, triax is the primary means of carriage there.

MM

At 11:18 PM 2/20/2006 -0500, Milton R. Holladay Jr. 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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