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In message <k9yqh7AjVzUNFw4j@bancom.co.uk> on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:46:27 +0000
 tony sayer  <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In article <MPG.27bd2200792a4333989772@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Terry Casey <ktype@example.invalid> scribeth thus
> >In article <iiurve$6rj$1@news.albasani.net>, tnp@invalid.invalid says...
> >> 
> >> tony sayer wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > Co-ax, RG11 IIRC and a two pair copper phone cable often referred to in
> >> > the trade as "Sidecar cable"
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Right: Given that it's you Tony, I take that as authoritative.
> >
> >So we have (a) God amongst us, do we? Perhaps I should bow and scrape ...
> 
> Sarcasm will get ye nowhere;!..
> 

any sarcasm there wasn't directed at you ...

unless ...

In 1967, one of the colour supplements ran an article on the start of colour TV in the UK 
in which it mentioned Rank-Bush-Murphy and their Chief Designer, Bernard J Rogers.

Describing the man, it related the tale that once, while he was away from his desk, 
someone fixed a sign to the front of it.

It read: "I am right by definition. If I were not, you would be sitting here."

On his return, Rogers noted the sign, read it, nodded approvingly and sat down, leaving 
the sign on show in perpetuity.

Many years later, I met Bernard at a Viewdata User Group meeting - by this time he was 
representing BREMA. Wondering if the story was apochryphal, I asked him about the 
article.

He didn't recall it but, when I repeated the story, he didn't deny it ...

> >
> >Actually, RG6 is the norm ...
> 
> One or the other. Seem to remember one of their local engineers
> referring to it as 11 ..
> 
> Engineer that was, not installer;!..
> 

A well populated street cabinet is pretty much full using RG6. RG11 is over twice the 
cross sectional area plus, of course, having a greater bend radius, so I don't think it 
would work on a mass scale. Designers usually avoid RG11 unless it's absolutely necessary 
for a couple of extra long drops. On the other hand, I don't recall ever having my head 
inside a Cambridge Cable cabinet, so they might have done something different ...

Didn't they use those plastic street cabinets? Their 19" racks were a pain because they 
used an unusual shelf support system, so you had to beg, steal or borrow the supports if 
you wanted to install any new kit ...

(An _empty_ Cisco router is, strictly speaking, a two man lift, so relying on front 
mounting only was a no - no!)

-- 

Terry