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Old November 4th 03, 11:41 PM
Jason Dugas
 
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Clearly, if I had an o-scope and a waveform generator, I wouldn't be farting
with this analyzer!!


"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message
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"Jason Dugas" wrote in message

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I'm interested in measuring the velocity factor of some coax I have

(more of
an exercise than necessity). In order to do this, the MFJ-259

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What would be a good way of making this connection?


Do you have a scope and a pulse generator? If so, just make a simple
TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry) setup to measure the reflection from a
un-terminated or shorted far end of the cable. You will get much more
accurate results with substantially less effort.

Don't get me wrong, the MFJ-259 is a good instrument. It's just that TDR
is so quick and easy and unambiguous for propogation delay measurements.

Tim.