On 1/22/18 3:06 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> I'm trying to remember what kind of cable it used; IIRC it was black coax, > with a woven shield (i.e. not solid like CATV), not quite as large in > diameter as the yellow 10Mbit stuff. To connect up to it, one clamped on a > connector thingy, which had a threaded hole in it over the cable; one then > screwed in a cylindrical cutter which made a hole through the shield, and one > then screwed in a transceiver (which was a box about 2"x2"x4", IIRC). > Hopefully someone has a picture somewhere? It's 75 ohm cable TV impedence (RG11?) I use RG-59 and BNCs for my Alto networks at CHM. You can pull the stingers off of the silver transceiver boxes easily and replace it with a BNC female socket. I've got a chunk of the orange plenum stuff with the vampire taps and terminators in storage.
