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From: mitel!Software!kim@uunet.UU.NET (Kim Letkeman)
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Subject: Re: Cables and Shields
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Date: 1 Feb 91 14:43:53 GMT
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In article <9225@uwm.edu> PH408014@brownvm.brown.edu (Tim Johnson) writes:
| Will one of you electrical engineers tell me
| why this is a dumb idea: get some of that
| standard tinned copper braid, slip it over
| your coax interconnects, ground it.

I'm not an EE, but I built a set of interconnects as suggested by IAR
perhaps 8 years ago. Basically, connect 300ohm antennae wire to a pair
of RCA jacks. The result was ok, in that they sounded better than the
el-cheapo manufacturer's.

The article also suggested shielding them. I picked up that tinned
copper braid and shielded the cables, grounding at one end to the RCA
jack. The difference was startling.

I suppose that it should work as well with unshielded coax.

Kim
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