Clearly, if I had an o-scope and a waveform generator, I wouldn't be farting
with this analyzer!!


"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message
om...
"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
Operations
...
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.

Clearly, if I had an o-scope and a waveform generator, I wouldn't be farting
with this analyzer!!


"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message
om...
"Jason Dugas" wrote in message
...
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
Operations
...
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.

"Jason Dugas" wrote in message ...
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 Operations
...
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.