[time-nuts] Cables dor 10 mHz

[Pete Lancashire]

I sold them with the warning, each piece had at least one or two 50
foot sections
that had not been 'eaten'. It is fuzzy but I think each section was
200 feet long, the
part I remember the most was the weight vs RG8.

We are both old :-)

-pete

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Rex <rexa at sonic.net> wrote:
> Many years back I bought a long coil of the orange cable with N connectors
> on it at a flea market. Only when I got home did I notice that vampires had
> been gnawing on it in many places :-(
> I should have known better and spotted the holes.
>
> I'm pretty sure I know which box holds my vampire tool and a MAU or two, but
> I worked for 3Com starting in 86.
>
>
>
> On 7/30/2012 5:02 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
>>
>> Weird timing, I was digging through the attic and two weeks ago found
>> a box with AMP stinger repair kits, a couple unopened MAUs,
>> and at least one said tool or two in the bottom of the box. There use
>> to be a few N connectors but I still use them so they ended up in the
>> RF connector box.
>>
>> I use to have a few spools of the cable but one ham radio swap meet
>> and they went fast.
>>
>> One of MAUs is bigger then one of my Linux based single board
>> computers with a network jack ! And I bet cost more to buy.
>>
>> -pete
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Chuck Harris<cfharris at erols.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Chris Albertson wrote:
>>> ...   I wonder how many
>>>
>>>> people here remember the old 10base5 stuff.  We used to call it
>>>> "Frozen yellow garden hose".  It was a perfect description.  I think
>>>> it was about 1980. And I still remember being astounded when I saw
>>>> that a "vampire tap" could work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Or maybe more to the point, I wonder how many of us have installed
>>> 10base5 cable, and done vampire taps?  I think I still have one of
>>> the tools around here somewhere... probably with my G-D wirewrap
>>> gun.
>>>
>>> -Chuck Harris
>>>
>
>
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