You may have noticed this week's RF Report is early due to Thanksgiving. With less news to report, it gives me an opportunity to discuss what I see as a major problem with the DTV conversion unrelated ...

Adapted from The Circuit Designer's Companion, Third Ed., by Peter Wilson (Newnes). 1.2.5 RF cables Cables for the transport of radio frequency signals are almost invariably coaxial, apart from a few ...

At DC and low frequency, we can pretend wires are perfect conductors. At radio frequencies, though, there are many effects that you need to take into account for wires and cables.

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I am running twin coax cables from a twin LNB on my satellite dish on my my roof to my TV room three floors down. The rest of my house has RF cabling in the walls with each room having a wall ...

RF and microwave interconnects continue evolving rapidly to support frequencies exceeding 110 GHz through advanced materials, ...

Sharath ——— Dear Sharath, I am not an engineer, but to my knowledge, you cannot calculate the signal lost as it travels through a coax cable without knowing the cable length. For a 900 MHz signal ...

Cable System Downstream Transmitters Digital cable transmitters have advanced from a conventional transmitter, where a pair of baseband DACs are used to drive a quadrature modulator, whose local ...

Image Credit: Ulbrich We can custom produce a wrapped wire with unique mechanical properties that are best suited (i.e., “match”) for their individual processes. Mil-Specs tend to be very generic that ...

RF Cable Nomenclature The term RF cable is used in this wiring diagram for a Cisco VoIP cable modem. It shows the coaxial line (RF cable) from the cable company being split between the TV and modem.