[Milsurplus] WTB: Oddball coax

Mike Morrow kk5f at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 8 16:56:00 EST 2006


Denny wrote:

> Have you considered RG-62 if you cannot locate RG-7?  RG-62 is 93 ohm
> and of similar construction, although the dielectric is a polyethylene
> spiral cord.  It's diameter is that of RG-59.

The Korean War vintage AN/GRC-3 to -8 and related sets use RG-62A/U coax in inter-unit cable assembly CG-530/U, presumably for its low capacitance (but the 20 to 28 mc sets use no coax at all, just a single wire in the equivalent cable assembly CG-568/U).  I'll bet most folks who have seen these assemblies assume that the coax is common 52 ohm RG-58/U.

Mike / KK5F




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