Re: Connecting 16th century antenna wire to 21st century coax

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And they had 16th century antenna wire?????????????????????????????


On 23 Jan 2006 18:09:50 -0800, bruno.lerer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Yet another strange question from yours truly: on the roof of my house,
>anchored to the chimney, is a large outdoor antenna. No idea which
>antenna - it was installed before my time, probably 15 years ago (or
>more) and, for various reasons, I can't climb on the roof to find
>out.  From that antenna and into the house runs a brown cable (or is it
>wire?) labeled "Belden Celluline 9275 300 ohm UHF transmission" and
>a bunch of patent numbers.
>
>For some strange reason (it may have been done by the cable company
>when cable was first installed in the house - also before my time),
>that Belden cable was cleanly cut mid-way through its run across the
>basement.  While it doesn't look like any twin-lead cable I've seen
>before (and, admittedly, I haven't seen that many), it has a white
>core which looks like frozen foam and what appear to be two very thin
>metal lines, one on each side of the core.
>
>And the question: I want to find out if that antenna+cable setup still
>delivers a signal.  I would like to do it by connecting the Belden
>cable to a standard RG6 coax and then to a regular or HD tuner.  I
>understand that this connection would require a gizmo called a balun
>but that's as far as my understanding goes.  So what type of balun is
>it (if there is more than one)? How difficult is it to find? I imagine
>I need to strip the Belden cable on one hand and the RG6 on the other
>in order to connect them to the balun. Is it possible and, if so, how
>is it done?
>
>Thanks.