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Best Coaxial Cable

coaxial cable

a transmission line for high-frequency signals
Coaxial cable, or coax, is an electrical cable with an inner conductor surrounded by a flexible, tubular insulating layer, surrounded by a tubular conducting shield. The term coaxial comes from the inner conductor and the outer shield sharing the same geometric axis.
A transmission line, consisting of a conducting wire surrounded by an insulated spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath; used to carry high frequency signals such as TV

Copper Digital TV Ant.

Here is a very inexpensive UHF Digital Antenna you can make yourself. It is made from Copper tubing with a 7 inch diameter loop. This last part is important as the length of the copper tubing helps define it’s most sensitive frequency range. Unlike the old loop antennas on the back of TVs this is mounted on roof via a non-conducting material such as this is a piece of wood with heavy paint. Important to use a coaxial cable running up to it, however only connect the center copper wire to one terminal at either end of the copper loop. The other end of the loop does not need to be connected to anything. Only reason coaxial cable is important is to keep stray electrical interference to a minimum, hence the shielding on the outside of the white inner core of the cable gets it’s stability and grounded shielding from the connection on the TV coax. This is likely to not be the best ground and so you may wish to add a grounded wire to the coaxial connection on the TV usually there is enough room for an additional thin nut to fit on the exterior of the TV connection before you add the coaxial cable connector.
Do Not connect the shielding to the other terminal on the antenna, the other end does not get a connection to anything. This type of connection with a high conducting metal like copper allows the digital signal to be very efficiently collected and sent to the TV, however a loop antenna is directional and so if you are looking through the loop you should be able to see the direction the signal is coming from, this is usually only very important with weaker signals. Do Not use an amplifier with this antenna, it should be able to pick up weak digital signals better than most antennas sold today (with amplifiers built in for digital signals), so there is no need for an amplifier. In fact if you add an amplifier to this design you may actually lose signals. No need to use added power when this natural "Conductive Antenna" will work better without any needed amplification.
Solar activity is said to be increasing and may peak anywhere from 2- 4 years from now. This is possibly one of the most active cycles coming since the mid 1800’s, when telegraph wires were arcing to the ground and early communications were overwhelmed with waves of electrical energy . That was a time when almost every building needed to have lightning rods and "Bolts out of the blue" were common. I mention this here because the importance of grounding for all electrical devices may be very important for the safety of your home, even to the point of adding a lightning rod to your dwelling. Many digital sources will have intermittent outages and possible loss of satellite signals. Even the web might crash, make sure you have surge protectors on everything connected using digital technology, review the principals of a "Faraday Cage" for your most important electronics, and make sure it is grounded.
If you have any questions about this antenna or how to connect or mount it just add a comment. Most of these antennas can be made for about $5 and it outperforms ones that sell for over $75 commercially.

Worms comin at ya

Worms with information running through them day and night.

"Ethernet /ˈiːθərnɛt/ is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs) commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies.

Systems communicating over Ethernet divide a stream of data into individual packets called frames. Each frame contains source and destination addresses and error-checking data so that damaged data can be detected and re-transmitted.

The standards define several wiring and signaling variants. The original 10BASE5 Ethernet used coaxial cable as a shared medium. Later the coaxial cables were replaced by twisted pair and fiber optic links in conjunction with hubs or switches. Data rates were periodically increased from the original 10 megabits per second, to 100 gigabits per second.

Since its commercial release, Ethernet has retained a good degree of compatibility. Features such as the 48-bit MAC address and Ethernet frame format have influenced other networking protocols." – Wikipedia

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Leica M3
Summicron 50 2.0 DR
Yellow leitz filter
Ilford Pan F 50
Scanned at lab (the dust and scratch remover was applied by them since I forgot to tell them to skip it.