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From: John Stanley <nmri!!stanley@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Phone Calls at the Speed of Light
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Date: 2 Feb 90 13:43:23 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 73, message 5 of 13


 In article <3396@accuvax.nwu.edu> Don Alvarez <boomer@athena.princeton.edu> 
writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 67, message 5 of 11

> [lots of numbers deleted]

 Plain copper wire has always had a good velocity factor.
Unfortunatley, the coax variant can range anywhere from 95%c to 60%c.
Even within the same type from the same manufacturer. This causes
great havoc when trying to make resonant feedlines (Hmmm, is this the
 .6c RG-58 or the .78c RG-58?)


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